{"id":4087,"date":"2012-05-07T16:40:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T21:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2012-05-07T16:40:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T21:40:01","slug":"gogo-to-buy-airfone-to-boost-in-flight-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4087","title":{"rendered":"GoGo to buy Airfone to boost in-flight Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Airfone has been around for decades as an in-flight telephone service provider and has passed through a long string of corporate ownership, including GTE Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc. In 2008, Verizon sold Airfone to LiveTV. Now Gogo will acquire <strong>Airfone&#8217;s network infrastructure, as well as a 1 MHz spectrum license currently held by LiveTV<\/strong>. Gogo already has a 3 MHz license. The company&#8217;s network is air-to-ground, meaning it has cellular towers that beam signals to aircraft. The network covers the contiguous U.S. and portions of Alaska.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/breaking\/chi-gogo-buys-airfone-to-boost-inflight-wifi-20120507,0,3385710.story\">GoGo to buy Airfone to boost in-flight Wi-Fi &#8211; chicagotribune.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airfone has been around for decades as an in-flight telephone service provider and has passed through a long string of corporate ownership, including GTE Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc. In 2008, Verizon sold Airfone to LiveTV. Now Gogo will acquire &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4087\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[580,78],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-acquisitions","tag-wifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4088,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}