Re: Exploding pagers

On 20/09/2024 10:17, Clive Arthur wrote:

On 20/09/2024 06:15, Bill Sloman wrote:
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Planes are Faraday cages. These days they do use WiFi inside the aircraft to give people access to the Web, but pagers rely on older technology.

 When I fly, I choose a window seat, hold my phone to the window and use the sat-nav app (Magic Earth).  It sometimes takes a while to get a fix, but it always works.  If I'm over a country where I've downloaded the maps, I get a lot of speed warnings.
 However, I doubt the cellphone network would work.
 

At low altitude cellphones would work.  However, the network operators
don't like it because a planeload of cellphones would be visible to
a large number of base stations and cause interference to other calls
on the same frequency over a wide area.
John