LiveTV the in-plane television system owned by JetBlue Airways has agreed to buy Verizons Airfone network to develop in-flight email and Internet services. JetBlue and other airlines, such as Continental, use LiveTV's satellite-based television programming service. The Airfone network, supported by 100 base stations scattered across the United States, will take effect, Jan. 1, 2009. Competitor

Nary a week after JetBlue expanded its in-flight internet services on BetaBlue comes news that the airline's LiveTV unit will be picking up Verizon's Airfone network. As you can glean, the purchase is being made in order to further "develop in-flight email and internet services," and while no purchase price was disclosed by either outfit, we are told that LiveTV will receive "100 air-to-ground US

http://images.pinstack.com/themes/imgs/jetblue.pngJetBlue Airways and LiveTV today announced the...

Several US carriers have committed to fleet trials of in-flight video, texting or WiFi in their domestic operations. They include Alaska Airlines (Row 44, single-aircraft trial), American Airlines (AirCell, 15-aircraft trial), Continental (LiveTV, 737 and 757 fleet fits), JetBlue (LiveTV, single-aircraft trial), Southwest (Row 44, four-aircraft trial) and Virgin America (AirCell). The website for

Continental Airlines plans to add inflight WiFi services to some of their planes beginning in January of next year. The airlines inked a deal with LiveTV a unit of rival airlines Jet Blue. The WiFi ...

Continental Airlines, the 5th largest in the U.S., announced recently a partnership with LiveTV to offer inflight email and IM capabilities to passengers by January 2009. Set to be added to its fleet of Boeing 737 aircraft, the service will be free to all passengers and available on laptops as well as WiFi-enabled smartphones. They

Continental Airlines yesterday announced that it has struck a deal with LiveTV that will allow the airline to offer live satellite TV broadcasts and in-flight WiFi access for smartphone and laptop based email and instant messaging.

PC World explains How Four Airlines Plan to Connect Fliers to the Web in light of the Friday announcement that JetBlue is teaming up with Research in Motion and Yahoo to test free e-mail and instant messaging on its flights. JetBlue’s in-flight telecom company, LiveTV is providing only a 1 MHz chunk of spectrum in