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Traveller's guides are available to read at your leisure as are maps and an abundance of information in hotels.
Travellers guides will only give info on the most visited tourist sites Smartphones' mapping and internet abilities greatly enhance travelling to places you don't know, not just for checking your facebook or twitter |
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See James, less is more.
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I have no idea waht you're on about.
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Traveller's guides are available to read at your leisure as are maps and an abundance of information in hotels.
My phone provides me with up to date information, sometimes from people who actually live there. Not from someone who once spent two weeks there for Lonely Planet years ago. It also provides me with turn-by-turn directions and a way to call for help if I need it. I can also get up to date information on public transport times A bloody A to Z doesn't do that. I don't get out a paper map when I'm in an unfamilar UK city, and there's an obvious reason why I don't... |
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A little pocket map isn't always a great deal of use when wandering around a small street in Paris or Berlin looking for a small restaurant you only know the name of.
Travellers guides will only give info on the most visited tourist sites Smartphones' mapping and internet abilities greatly enhance travelling to places you don't know, not just for checking your facebook or twitter |
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Brexiters, once again, displaying that they're stuck in the 1950s and want to drag everyone else back there
My phone provides me with up to date information, sometimes from people who actually live there. Not from someone who once spent two weeks there for Lonely Planet years ago. It also provides me with turn-by-turn directions and a way to call for help if I need it. I can also get up to date information on public transport times A bloody A to Z doesn't do that. I don't get out a paper map when I'm in an unfamilar UK city, and there's an obvious reason why I don't... |
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You are so childish calling people names. Grow up.
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A little pocket map isn't always a great deal of use when wandering around a small street in Paris or Berlin looking for a small restaurant you only know the name of.
You should try it some time, perhaps. |
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A little pocket map isn't always a great deal of use when wandering around a small street in Paris or Berlin looking for a small restaurant you only know the name of.
Travellers guides will only give info on the most visited tourist sites Smartphones' mapping and internet abilities greatly enhance travelling to places you don't know, not just for checking your facebook or twitter No reason why you should, of course..... |
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You are so childish calling people names. Grow up.
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Well said.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...5&postcount=65 (and before you try to dredge up posts of mine in retaliation - I freely and unashamedly use the term "brexshitter") |
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Didn't realise the EU has told us we can't have cheap calls within the EU. Thought they said they wouldn't negotiate anything with us until A50 was activated?? Anyone got a link to the EU leaders already starting this negotiation?
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Didn't realise the EU has told us we can't have cheap calls within the EU. Thought they said they wouldn't negotiate anything with us until A50 was activated?? Anyone got a link to the EU leaders already starting this negotiation?
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The EU isn't a phone company. Once the UK leaves they will no longer be covered by EU laws capping roaming charges, ergo the phone companies can charge you what they like.
A lot of brexiters are pretty deluded so this is not surprising |
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Perhaps you should follow your own advice - you didn't seem to think that brexiter was a childish name earlier on this month, nor do you think that remoaner is an insult, even though it's a far more pejorative term. Hypocrisy and faux outrage never looks good.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...5&postcount=65 (and before you try to dredge up posts of mine in retaliation - I freely and unashamedly use the term "brexshitter") If I call you deluded or stuck in the 1950s please feel free to call me insulting. |
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And three out of four of the network operators has a history of needing to be dragged kicking and screaming into lowering those prices by the EU. So anyone who thinks that this won't change is deluded. The remaining network operator might keep things the same, as they are trying to lower roaming costs to all countries, not just EU ones.
A lot of brexiters are pretty deluded so this is not surprising |
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Holidays aren't the only reason people travel to Europe.
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I presume that Europeans visiting the UK will have charges increased accordingly?
e.g. when Vodafone used to charge you £5/MB or 50p/minute for roaming in France, they aren't paying anything close to that to the French network, and Vodafone + the French network don't need to invest anything close to the wholesale price to set up the roaming infrastructure. They aren't losing money by offering free/cheap roaming. Especially when you're using a foreign network that is owned by the same parent company as your UK network. Three have said this for years, and put their money where their mouth is by offering free roaming in countries where Three owns a local network, such as in Ireland, Italy, Austria and Hong Kong |
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So, what currently happens if you roam in a non EU/EEA country?
Oh yes, you get charged a fair bit *unless you buy a bundle* - but of course everyone roams exclusively in the EU, I forgot..... *rollseyes* |
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Brexiters, once again, displaying that they're stuck in the 1950s and want to drag everyone else back there
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Hang on a minute - I travel to Spain and Cyprus on holidays and I'm as hard-Brexit as they come. I don't hate the countries, just the political union. There are more important things about it than your mobile phone bill.
If my roaming costs start to rise, I'll leave my phone switched off when I'm there. Simple. Once again I'll ask - what currently happens when you roam in the USA for example? India? Australia? |
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So, what currently happens if you roam in a non EU/EEA country?
Oh yes, you get charged a fair bit *unless you buy a bundle* - but of course everyone roams exclusively in the EU, I forgot..... *rollseyes* |
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I imagine most Brexit voters don't even know how to use a mobile phone, let alone will go abroad with one (why would they want to go to those dirty foreign countries after all?), so they won't be bothered. They still have their own post-office rented telephones with dial!
I've stopped watching comedy on tv. Instead I laugh at Remainers' posts and their tales of impending disaster. I think its very remiss of Digital Spy not to provide a 'sky is falling in' emoji, or perhaps one of a Remainer holding up an umbrella with a perpetual rain cloud over their head ![]() Happy New Year and keep up the good work
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They don't have any interest in travelling outside the UK either. Why am I not surprised?
Presenting... the brexit phone! https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...31d9a277df.jpg |
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So it's fine to get charged through the nose while in the EU cos it happens elsewhere? Brexiter logic.
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