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Re:Southwest Airlines Offering In-Flight iMessaging for $2 P... by smackfu on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @05:14PM (#6891217)
It's not poor, it just doesn't work. The recent talk about allowing in-flight cell phone use was in relation to the airlines installing an in-plane microcell of some sort for your phone to connect though.
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Re:Southwest Airlines Offering In-Flight iMessaging for $2 P... by adrr on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @09:35PM (#6892498)
Some flights on foreign airlines allow cell phone(assume through microcells). Just not on US domestic flights.
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Re:Southwest Airlines Offering In-Flight iMessaging for $2 P... by baddox on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @07:04PM (#6891852)
Except for the calls that made it through from United 93, or was it at lower altitude at the time?
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Re:Southwest Airlines Offering In-Flight iMessaging for $2 P... by encoderer on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @09:13PM (#6892442)
Certainly it was below the 30k' cruising altitude. And over a heavily populated area. And voice connections are easier to get than data in my experience doing, uhh, "research" of this sort.
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