how come only European & Asian airlines let you talk on your own GSM phone on planes?
Feb 10, 2016, 9:46 pm
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iMessage and WhatsApp are IM applications that run over the Internet. SMS is a service that uses public telephone network signaling and has nothing to do with the Internet. Apparently both are allowed on cell phone equipped flights. And some airlines limit or try to limit cellular or Internet voice calls, while other airlines allow it.
Feb 10, 2016, 10:06 pm
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Feb 11, 2016, 7:47 am
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iMessage and WhatsApp are IM applications that run over the Internet. SMS is a service that uses public telephone network signaling and has nothing to do with the Internet. Apparently both are allowed on cell phone equipped flights. And some airlines limit or try to limit cellular or Internet voice calls, while other airlines allow it.
Feb 11, 2016, 9:12 am
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Except that Verizon's Message+ when sending over Wifi/IP is not actually SMS. It is IM. SMS is actually a protocol that cannot be run over IP. You can receive an SMS message and re-encapsulate it into an IP-based IM, but at that point it is no longer SMS. Strictly speaking of course.
Feb 11, 2016, 9:18 am
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Except that Verizon's Message+ when sending over Wifi/IP is not actually SMS. It is IM. SMS is actually a protocol that cannot be run over IP. You can receive an SMS message and re-encapsulate it into an IP-based IM, but at that point it is no longer SMS. Strictly speaking of course.
Feb 11, 2016, 9:30 am
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Feb 11, 2016, 9:59 am
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Except that Verizon's Message+ when sending over Wifi/IP is not actually SMS. It is IM. SMS is actually a protocol that cannot be run over IP. You can receive an SMS message and re-encapsulate it into an IP-based IM, but at that point it is no longer SMS. Strictly speaking of course.
What matters to me is that it works on my phone, computer or tablet, whether I have a cellular signal or not.
