why do they ask us to keep our devices on airplane mode on a plane but the WiFi is allowed?
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Fun fact: airplane mode on cell devices is largely archaic. It spawned from an issue with cell towers not the plane. Devices flying through cell locations at hundreds of miles per hour could be in and then out of the same cell faster than the tower could respond, often times crashing the cell tower in the process. As planes got higher and towers better this became a non issue but these days it’s kept around as a better safe than sorry in regards to interference
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