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Old Jan 19, 2025 | 8:02 am
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Originally Posted by rrz518
Posting this on the frontier page because this happened on a Frontier flight. As you know they don't have any Wi-Fi yet my Google maps was able to track my location all through the flight. How is that possible? Thanks
Same way you can drive out into the middle of the nowhere and your GPS will work.

GPS existed before WiFi.
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