What happens if no one turns on airplane mode on a full commercial flight?

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What happens if no one turns on airplane mode on a full commercial flight?

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Everyone knows your phone dies faster searching for signal, but what most don’t realize is it dying faster because it’s sending out a **stronger** signal in search of a tower that “must be further away.”

So if/when that signal **does** hit a tower, it’s going to be strong enough that it disrupts other users of that tower.

The more phones with high power searching, the more disruptive that becomes.

Now consider that sort of disruption moving across a long distance at ~400mph…. There’s a lot of potential disruption occurring.