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Problems Texting on In-Flight WiFi
I flew a domestic round trip on American Airlines recently, and for the first time on both flights I was able to get free WiFi with AA with my Go5G plus plan. However, the texting didn't work on eit...
jauntz wrote:
Thank you for your reply. I was only using the default Android (messages by Google) texting app and sending messages through short, simple SMS. No MMS or RCS.
I recall sometimes having trouble with SMS if my phone (OnePlus 8T 5G) was in airplane mode with WiFi turned back on. To get it to work I had to turn airplane mode off. While this is not kosher on an airline, you might give it a try next time.
Wifi reliability on planes is very hit and miss due to the way airplane WiFi works. It is possible that those messages you didn't get were because the plane had moved beyond one ground relay station to another or out of the range of one cubesat to another when the message was enroute to the aircraft.
