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You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes (gizmodo.com)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

3G has been turned off in a lot of places, but 2G is still very much used globally. It's still the last fallback for phones to maintain basic texting and calling functionality. In many places emergency services also use it for e.g. emergency information via text message.