AirCell to offer Internet on airplanes

LOUISVILLE – AirCell is hoping its recent $31.3 million investment will pay off big time for the commercial airline industry and consumers.

In June the 15-year-old Louisville telecommunications company was the high bidder in the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auction for air-to-ground broadband frequencies.

Now that the bidding is over, the company is completing the paperwork and payments required and should have its license by the end of month, said Aircell spokesman Tom Myers. “We’re hoping that within a year of the actual license issue we’ll be able to go live.”

“Going live” means fliers on both commercial aircraft and private jets…