An integrated wireless system for providing wireless communications to communication devices on an aircraft regardless of aircraft altitude is a terrestrial network comprising a plurality of terrestrial base stations configured to communicate primarily at a terrestrial communications layer below a first altitude, an ATG communications layer above a second altitude an ATG network comprising a plurality of ATG base stations configured to communicate primarily in The integrated radio may be configured to monitor network parameters of the terrestrial network and the ATG network, and switch between a current serving network and a non-serving network based on the network parameters.
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