Except it does work - the base station simply needs to emulate the connectivity check servers. It doesn’t even need to do anything fancy, just route all packets to a locally running microserver that responds to ICMP Echo, HTTP and TCP requests and so on.
Governments already use this approach for blocking out areas (e.g. during protests) while also grabbing mobile phone IDs and other data, via mobile base stations. The exact same could be applied to the ~10 minutes of takeoff and landing time.
Except it does work - the base station simply needs to emulate the connectivity check servers. It doesn’t even need to do anything fancy, just route all packets to a locally running microserver that responds to ICMP Echo, HTTP and TCP requests and so on.
Governments already use this approach for blocking out areas (e.g. during protests) while also grabbing mobile phone IDs and other data, via mobile base stations. The exact same could be applied to the ~10 minutes of takeoff and landing time.
is it the same for 3G?
It’s the same for all generations.
Internet checks are easy to take with a simple HTTP+IGMP service. 2G/3G also did a slightly different connectivity check but that can be faked too.
at that point it feels easier to just connect the base station to the same satellite receiver the onboard internet uses