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You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists. (gizmodo.com)

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You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.::Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.

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[–] poppy@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There are huge swaths of the US not covered. You could be driving between two cities less than an hour apart and hit dead zones.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Canada is no better. Shit my work is on the opposite side of the hill as our radio town and get fuck all for cell signal and the tower is less than 1km from me

//Should add that the mayor of our town made it impossible to rent out space on the water tower (which is at the peak of said hill) because after 2001 our town could be a target for terrorism.... I'm 200km from Toronto and 45 km away from a major military air base

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's wild. You got to be in a very remote place for that to ever happen here. Granted, there is a fair bit of competition between the three main telecom companies, and data coverage has been one of the biggest topics between them for over a decade.

[–] poppy@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the size difference helps in Norways favor too I imagine (and probably shape too!)

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

It's certainly smaller than any American state, but for our population it's fairly big. The topology of the country also isn't very friendly to cell signals. 90+% of the country is mountainous/fjords. It's why coverage has been a big selling point, a bunch of people live on some random mountain side in the middle of nowhere.

From what I've heard, there isn't much competition in the US though, so I guess that plays a part. We got three companies independently building out their own network across the whole country.