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Airfone was an air-ground radiotelephone service developed by MCI founder John D. Goeken, and operated under the names Airfone, GTE Airfone, and Verizon Airfone. Airfone allowed passengers to make telephone calls (later including data modem service) in-flight.
2 lis 2024 · GTE Airfone Inc., developed the concept of in-flight communication in the early 1980s. This concept materialized into an Airfone and gave airline passengers a convenient way to make phone calls when the mechanical birds were in the air. Business class customers were the biggest customers of Airfone.
16 lis 2014 · Actually, most DL aircraft had GTE/Verizon Airfone; the only ones that had the AT&T Wireless Claircom service were the newest 752s, most 738s, and the 764ERs (the latter via the IFE handsets). DL began to remove all the phones (both Verizon and AT &T) when they introduced the leather seat covers.
Airfone was "invented" by GTE, who then sold the rights to Verizon a while back. I've used them on 3 occassions, from STL-IAH (735) and HKG-EWR (772) on CO, and LAX-STL on TW (in an L-1011). The reception was good, with a slight time delay on the end.
5 wrz 1989 · Twenty years after forming a company that helped break up the Bell telephone system, once the world's largest monopoly, John D. Goeken is seeking to crack another telephone monopoly, the GTE...
6 lip 1999 · GTE Airfone, which provides in-flight telephony services to airlines and corporate aircraft operators, is to be sold to US private equity investment group Oak Hill Capital Partners.
21 mar 1991 · The GTE Corporation announced a costly settlement yesterday with John D. Goeken, who built the first air-to-ground telephone service company and sold it to GTE in 1986. Mr. Goeken and GTE...
