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Originally Posted by d@rk51d3
So, your text messages from your mobile are relayed by the plane to satellite? Because your mobile won't do it directly.
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That's right. The air to ground comms systems used on airliners are used to forward your SMS.
One system in use here in Australia on Qantas domestic flights is AeroMobile:
http://www.aeromobile.net/aeromobile.asp