Caporegime
I’m Currently in Cyprus on holiday and my son has just come to me asking why he’s had numerous texts from EE.
Looking at the date and times of the texts they correspond with him and his mum flying out here two weeks back (I joined them last Friday) , in a nutshell he’s got a text from EE saying for each country on the flight path “Hi Welcome to Austria, Germany, Bosnia, Croatia etc etc “
At the time the phone was in the hold - we’d clearly not switched it off - and for the duration of the flight the plane was at 37,000ft ~ 7miles up.
What puzzles me the most is I remembered mid flight to switch my iPhone to airplane mode, when I looked at it on the aircraft, it displayed “No Service” which at that altitude I’d expect.
Can anyone explain how his iPhone managed to get a signal from that height over each country he passed over?
Looking at the date and times of the texts they correspond with him and his mum flying out here two weeks back (I joined them last Friday) , in a nutshell he’s got a text from EE saying for each country on the flight path “Hi Welcome to Austria, Germany, Bosnia, Croatia etc etc “
At the time the phone was in the hold - we’d clearly not switched it off - and for the duration of the flight the plane was at 37,000ft ~ 7miles up.
What puzzles me the most is I remembered mid flight to switch my iPhone to airplane mode, when I looked at it on the aircraft, it displayed “No Service” which at that altitude I’d expect.
Can anyone explain how his iPhone managed to get a signal from that height over each country he passed over?
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