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Verizon Airfone To Stop Phone Service On Planes  
User currently offlineKarlB737 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 2929 posts, RR: 9
Posted (6 years 11 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 2007 times:

Courtesy: KCBS-TV

Verizon Airfone To Stop Phone Service On Planes

http://cbs2.com/business/finance_story_174164822.html

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User currently offlineLaxintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22053 posts, RR: 51
Reply 1, posted (6 years 11 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 1990 times:

The demise of the service has been long in the making. In the last few year overall usage and benefit of the service has gone down as cell phone availability and usage has increased dramatically on the ground, while inflight usage has remained flat if not declined at some carriers.

As a result the airline revenue share has also seen a steady decline while most recently several carriers have started to reduce/remove Airfone equipment on aircraft as a weight saving exercise due to fuel cost.


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User currently offlinePolymerPlane From United States of America, joined May 2006, 991 posts, RR: 3
Reply 2, posted (6 years 11 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 1970 times:

Wow, on board communications businesses are taking a big hit in the past week. With Airfone is closing down and Boeing is selling its connexion, not a bright outlook for this business model.

Cheers,
PP


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User currently offlineAviacentre From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 121 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (6 years 11 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 1946 times:

Does this mean they will discontinue their JetConnect service as well, or just the phone service? I always enjoyed using JetConnect to go on MSN messenger in-flight.


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User currently offlineFWAERJ From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 3175 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (6 years 11 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 1923 times:

Quoting Aviacentre (Reply 3):
Does this mean they will discontinue their JetConnect service as well, or just the phone service?

JetConnect will also be discontinued, as it uses the Airfone infrastructure.


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