Except it does work - the base station simply needs to emulate the connectivity check servers. It doesn’t even need to do anything fancy, just route all packets to a locally running microserver that responds to ICMP Echo, HTTP and TCP requests and so on.
Governments already use this approach for blocking out areas (e.g. during protests) while also grabbing mobile phone IDs and other data, via mobile base stations. The exact same could be applied to the ~10 minutes of takeoff and landing time.
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.
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.
Except it does work - the base station simply needs to emulate the connectivity check servers. It doesn’t even need to do anything fancy, just route all packets to a locally running microserver that responds to ICMP Echo, HTTP and TCP requests and so on.
Governments already use this approach for blocking out areas (e.g. during protests) while also grabbing mobile phone IDs and other data, via mobile base stations. The exact same could be applied to the ~10 minutes of takeoff and landing time.
Phones will try to route around a malfunctioning base station that is isolated from the internet.