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Issues with In-flight Free WiFi
Recently I found out that to use the free Gogo Inflight I have verify with a text message. However, for the last 4/5 times I was unable to get a text message. My phone was in Airplane Mode and WiFi c...
firstunicorn wrote:Have had this problem without fail for all flights in the last year. Every time, I contact gogo CS, and go through all the steps to try to get it working without success. Then they give me a promo code for free access. I think modern Android phones like mine (Pixel 4a 5G) will not allow wifi calling until it validates connectivity on wifi. This is catch 22 if you can't get connectivity until you get a SMS. :(
this is exactly the issue..most phones wont allow it since they must receive the code via text just to confirm...no wifi until then means with airplane mode turned on you wont receive anything. last person i remember bringing this up they had to turn airplane mode off..wait until they got the signal..then once it was received they turned airplane mode back on.
