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Old Sep 16, 2013 | 12:18 pm
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Originally Posted by JMN57
There are different airplane phone technologies. Airphone was available in the 90's (at the time it was GTE I recall) but it wasn't satellite but air-to-ground. There was one year there was a little known promotion that if you committed to $30 per month for a year ($360), you could get unlimited airphone use.
After VZW took it over there was also a $10/month+$0.10/minute option. I used that for several weeks to be able to call in to a conference call while en route AUS-EWR and also get home for dinner rather than at 10pm. Boss was happy to pay the ~$5/week extra and I was very happy to be home earlier.
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