Verizon shutting down Airfone service
Posted Jun 27th 2006 10:18AM by Brian White
Filed under: Long Range, Applications, Business
As our friends at
Engadget Mobile posted on earlier, Verizon will be shuttering its Airfone service -- those ungainly handsets in the backs of airplane seats -- by the end of 2006. Perhaps
JetBlue's LiveTV service will also offer voice calling -- on JetBlue flights -- to replace the Airfone-vacated spectrum?
Well, in a few years, at least.
I can't imagine that the Airfone air-to-ground network is cheap to maintain, so Verizon wants to shut it down in order to concentrate on its mobile and fixed-line business. Can't blame them there -- it's hard to imagine that there is profit in the Airfone business.
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