In June 2006, Gogo Business Aviation successfully bid $31.3 million for a 3 MHz air-to-ground spectrum in an FCC auction.

[2] Aircell began in 1991 in a barbecue joint in Denison, Texas, where company founder Jimmy Ray sketched his idea for an affordable telephone system for private airplanes on a paper napkin.

On August 5, 2008, Delta Air Lines announced it was installing Aircell's Gogo Inflight system on all of its airplanes over the subsequent year.

The lawsuit, filed on a Tuesday, claims that Gogo engaged in illegal and "abusive" activities to maintain dominance in the market.

[10] Formation Inc, a software company, based in Moorestown, New Jersey, developed two critical hardware components of Aircell's Gogo Inflight Internet system: its central processor unit (ACPU) and the custom built Cabin Wireless Access Point (CWAP).