why do they ask us to keep our devices on airplane mode on a plane but the WiFi is allowed?

Question

why do they ask us to keep our devices on airplane mode on a plane but the WiFi is allowed?

In: Technology

Answer 1

I read an aerospace engineers post once: “We simply can’t test against whatever crazy signal blasting Verizon might figure out next year, so we say no because we’re making planes that have to keep people in the air so we default to the safest option.”