>Yet in 2001, a telephone spokesperson stated that sustained mobile calls were not possible above 10,000 feet.”
I remember some Japanese tech dudes gathered up every mobile phone on the market back in 2001, and took them all on a plane to try and make calls and not one phone worked after they went above 10,000 ft. Official accounts of that day claim calls from passengers were made to loved ones at 40,000 ft. A small anomaly but there are hundreds if not thousands of these anomalies. When you add them all up you get the truth.