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Originally Posted by Deltona Couple
Willravel, can you accept that IF they were at that altitude that they COULD have made a good cel phone call?
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While it is statistically improbable, yes it is possible for maybe a very short, crappy quality conversation to have gone through. The problem is that it wasn't a short, crappy-quality conversation. There were many, long, clear conversations. I'm left wondering, why don't I get good service at my house, but these people can have conversations moving at hundred of miles per hour, miles in the air?
A friend of mine has a plane (yes, some of my friends ar rich). The last time we went up, I asked him how my phone would affect his eqwuiptment. He basically said that I was an idiot, and that we would not come down crashing into the ground if I opened up my Samsung and ordered a pizza. I decided to test a few things. I made 20 calls at varied altitudes, over Northern California (which is wooded and sparsely populated, like a lot of the areas that the planes flew over). The only call that went through was at 300 feet and it went through for about 3 seconds, just long enough for me to give the infamous line: "Can you hear me now?". No phone calls went through over a few hundred feet, and my phone is nothing to sneeze at.