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From: Clive Arthur <clive@nowaytoday.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Exploding pagers
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:17:09 +0100
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On 20/09/2024 06:15, Bill Sloman wrote:

<snip>
> 
> 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.

-- 
Cheers
Clive