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Asherlee10 posted...

SGT_Conti posted...

Superlinkbro posted...

Why would someone even need to make a phone call on a plane anyway?

People who work. My dad is probably the sort of person who would make calls on a plane, assuming the service didn't cost more.

I also fly for work pretty often and with the technology we have today, we don't have to talk on the phone. There is skype, email, text, slack, etc.

I think it's just the older generation that would have trouble with that.

Personally, I feel text communication is enough, especially with how hard it can be to hear anything on a plane. However, my dad's exactly the kind of old-school person who would prefer calling given the option.

ChromaticAngel posted...

I can't imagine most cell phones would work on the plane at all. You're going really fast over the towers and in some cases over the ocean. SatPhones might work, but they would be really rare.

I found this article.

https://www.howtogeek.com/194421/what-does-airplane-mode-do-and-is-it-really-necessary/

You wouldn’t normally be able to connect to cell towers on the ground, but an airplane that allowed cellular radios would be equipped with â€picocells.†These are small cellular base stations to which phones in the plane would connect just like they would any other cell tower. The picocell then beams their signal to a communications satellite, which in turn beams the signal back to a base station on the ground where it can connect to Earth’s cellular networks.
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