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Re:Inmarsat's European short-haul wi-fi spacecraft launches by ghaff on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:05PM (#14664908)
I also wonder what percentage of phones actually get put in airplane mode. I don't think I'd bet that it's as many as 50%.
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Re:Inmarsat's European short-haul wi-fi spacecraft launches by jandrese on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:18PM (#14665002)
IIRC last time I saw a study on this it was pretty high. Well in the 95% range. But there would usually be a phone or two on every 737 or larger sized plane not in airplane mode.
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Re:Inmarsat's European short-haul wi-fi spacecraft launches by ghaff on Thursday June 29, 2017 @07:05PM (#14667545)
That would somewhat shock me to be honest. I make a genuine effort to turn on airplane mode if only because not doing so drains the battery and I bet I miss at least one in 20 times. I would hope such a study was based on measuring ehat pople did as opposed to what they said they did.
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