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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You’ll have 4G and possibly 5G throughout the whole flight inside Norway. It’s not uncommon to see people browsing Netflix on their flight.

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Interesting, I’ve never gotten any signal after the first 15 minutes or so inside the US.

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Does the US have decent coverage? Over 85% of the land area in Norway is covered, 99,9% if we go by where people live, so you’ll have coverage even deep into fjords or mountains up here.

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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.

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Do you mean Norwegian?

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The country, not the company. I don’t think Norwegian got 4G cell towers strapped to their airplanes

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So you get cell reception if you fly over Norway‽ That sounds unlikely to be true. Maybe it can happen occasionally like anywhere in the world but I highly doubt it happens often.

A private 5G network on a plane seems more likely but wifi is obviously more reasonable (Which I think all Norwegian planes have by default)

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You’ll be lucky if they have seats.

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