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Do you get cell phone reception in Jamaica?

Can you get cell phone reception on a plane?

  • i know they tell you to turn theem off but can you still get service?

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    The phone will work -- many people used their phones during 9/11 -- but the rapid handoffs confuse the towers and chew-up bandwidth, and the phone's need to constantly "ping" in search of the best tower means that the flight crew hears a loud and annoying dit-dit-dit-dit in their headphones all the time. In short, it's not just the airlines being poopy-heards, like it usually is; it's actually unsafe and a bad idea.

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not in the air because your flying tens of thousands of feet in the air and your signals constantly jump from tower to tower. You can only get reception on the ground. I always turn mine off just after we took off and seconds before landing to let any msgs arrive

Bradly

Cell phones work by tower talking to tower. Now, usually those towers bounce the signal up in the sky and then down again - like you throwing a ball for distance - you don't throw it straight horizontal, you throw it up slightly to gain more distance. However, the towers are not designed to throw the signal as high as a plane. That said, there will be times in your plane that you will be in a signal range, but don't count on it. The other answers here have already given you the legal reasons. But technically speaking, yes, some of the time. 9/11 and people calling.... don't believe all you hear in the press. Simple.

John W

if u dont turn ur cellphone off in a plane it messes with the navagation signals

Sharissa

Yes, you can generally still get reception. However, the FCC prohibits the use of cellular telephones in flight.

Techwing

yes but that is while the plane is on the ground. When the plane is in the air, you are supposed to turn your phone off or put it in flight mode

jumokeade

The answer to can you is maybe. (But if you are not in a window seat and the plane is a cruising altitude, that pretty much becomes no.) The answer to may you is simply no.

Neil

yes that's why they make you turn them off

qwerty

Yes in most places you can get reception, just like on the ground

Alex L

Yes, it's called "Airplane Mode". And if I catch you using your phone at all on one of my flights I'll have the air marshall confiscate your phone faster than you can say "Mkay thx bai".

Captain Art Griego ✈

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