What happens if no one turns on airplane mode on a commercial flight?
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The cell service for everyone on the ground under the aircraft would be degraded by all the passengers’ phones trying and failing to connect to cell towers at their maximum radio power and causing lots of interference.
Of course some aircraft now contain their own miniature cell tower that lets everyone’s phones operate in low radio power mode, meaning there are flights where people don’t have to use airplane mode now.
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