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    It can cause issues on the ground as hundreds of phones try to connect to many overlapping cell towers at 800km/h.

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        9 hours ago

        Doesn’t matter, the cell towers will still be barraged with hundreds of high intensity requests for several seconds. It’s akin to a very underpowered and inefficient radio jammer.

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      Put a base station on the aircraft, all phones can connect to it at low power.

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          That’s already a thing, I’m talking about putting a 4g/5g/6g base station on an aircraft.

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            with the prices they charge for the wifi, what do you think would happen to ticket costs if they added a 5G transciever?

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              “Welcome to your eight-hour flight. If you would like to use wifi, please sign up for only $40 per hour. Enjoy your voyage!”

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              The point isn’t to provide 5G but to reduce devices reaching outside the plane for connection…

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                if they could get carriers onboard to sponsor the installation then maybe.

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                    The first part of that comment was unnecessary Fonix, you do not need to resort to name calling.

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                    yeah that doesn’t work. if they can’t reach out from the base station they try picking another one. so it would make the problem way worse.

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                    Phones will try to route around a malfunctioning base station that is isolated from the internet.