Mobile phones & tablets thread

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Originally Posted by henners88

I thought this was amusing, although I wouldn't want to pay the bill!



BBC News - Kent village paying French mobile call charges

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Bloody French, they should stop extending so far outside their Hexagon.

Seriously, how is that possible? In mainland Europe if I leave the country of my provider I get maximum 5 kms of coverage, sometimes even less.

Because the signals travel across the sea quite easily as they have line of sight to the coast.

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Originally Posted by Mark

Because the signals travel across the sea quite easily as they have line of sight to the coast.

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So everyone should set their phones to manually chose the provider when they travel to this place and then enjoy a day without being bothered by anyone! Good idea!

Seriously though, they might want to install a transmitter in the town to make sure they avoid such issues.

In the awesome town of Oradea, when my carrier takes a break an Hungarian carrier would welcome me instantly... But the border is 10 km from here.... It's odd that the French network could reach that far.

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Originally Posted by Big Ben

In the awesome town of Oradea, when my carrier takes a break an Hungarian carrier would welcome me instantly... But the border is 10 km from here.... It's odd that the French network could reach that far.

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The French are the best, there's no questioning of that! ;)

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Originally Posted by henners88

I thought this was amusing, although I wouldn't want to pay the bill!

BBC News - Kent village paying French mobile call charges

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Older readers may remember that One-2-One used to give free calls within your own dialling code, or in neigbouring codes. Why they based it on landlines I'll never know, but anyway. I spent an evening in Sheerness making loads of calls, which should have been free it falls into the area next to mine. I didn't bank on the transmitters on top of flats on Southend seafront, just 8 miles away as the crow flies - and that was when you'd pay 30 or 50p per minute for non-inclusive calls!

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Originally Posted by Big Ben

In the awesome town of Oradea, when my carrier takes a break an Hungarian carrier would welcome me instantly... But the border is 10 km from here.... It's odd that the French network could reach that far.

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It's a bit more than 10km to France but not a huge deal more.

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Originally Posted by ioan

True, and on top of that Windows 2008 Server licenses, which SGWilko tries to avoid right now. But still cheaper then VMware, but also less powerful.

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I'm gonna skip 2008 and move right on to 2012 if I get my budget. :)

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

I'm gonna skip 2008 and move right on to 2012 if I get my budget. :)

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That seems like a good plan. Also your chances to get budget for an up to date OS are better then for the previous version.

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Originally Posted by Dave B

Older readers may remember that One-2-One used to give free calls within your own dialling code, or in neigbouring codes. Why they based it on landlines I'll never know, but anyway. I spent an evening in Sheerness making loads of calls, which should have been free it falls into the area next to mine. I didn't bank on the transmitters on top of flats on Southend seafront, just 8 miles away as the crow flies - and that was when you'd pay 30 or 50p per minute for non-inclusive calls!

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Oohhhh, One 2 Weekend tarriff! In the days when mobiles were still rather bulky, and you could only send texts cross networks by manually inputting a belgium message centre number!

Ah, them were the days. Credit card size SIM cards too, and an extending aerial.