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That might be the original reason, but I think that the current reason for asking for flightmode on a plane is that cell towers near airports get overburdened,
by abdullahkhalids 2y ago
That might be the original reason, but I think that the current reason for asking for flightmode on a plane is that cell towers near airports get overburdened, as every flight would result in every phone rapidly switching between a dozen cell phone towers.
- riffraff 2y agoI heard of this years ago, but wouldn't this be also a problem for cell towers near railways?
- abdullahkhalids 2y agoThat's a good observation. It seems it is possible to plan cell towers for this [1, 2]. But perhaps, tech has not been deployed everywhere for regulations to be changed. [1] https://www.quora.com/How-does-LTE-perform-on-high-speed-rail https://www.quora.com/How-does-LTE-perform-on-high-speed-rai... [2] https://www.huawei.com/en/media-center/multimedia/videos/2024/5g-train-anhui https://www.huawei.com/en/media-center/multimedia/videos/202...