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I doubt they have any interest in owning a mobile phone either. Or even have the hang of touch tone. What's wrong with turning the little handle and talking to an operator? They seem to want everything else to return to the 50s after all.
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This thread is hilarious first world problems.
Oh noooo roaming charges to increase wtf. |
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They don't have any interest in travelling outside the UK either. Why am I not surprised?
Wow. (I know you didn't ask them all because you didn't ask me or my mates - all of us are going abroad next year, and we're all Brexitters). |
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They don't have any interest in travelling outside the UK either. Why am I not surprised?
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I doubt they have any interest in owning a mobile phone either. Or even have the hang of touch tone. What's wrong with turning the little handle and talking to an operator? They seem to want everything else to return to the 50s after all.
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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 Quote:
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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This has nothing to do with Brexit. And everything to do with (foreign owned) phone companies looking to rip the British phone user off!
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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.
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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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They don't have any interest in travelling outside the UK either. Why am I not surprised?
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This has nothing to do with Brexit. And everything to do with (foreign owned) phone companies looking to rip the British phone user off!
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Sounds like it might be pretty terrible if the European mobile networks choose to do this.
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This thread is hilarious first world problems.
Oh noooo roaming charges to increase wtf.
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Well its good you aren't bothered about this - however why not think a bit further afield than your own situation? Smart phones are fully integrated in how we live these days - massive increases in data costs will negatively affect many people.
It's a smart phone, your choice. |
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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!
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Well if you know it's name either someone can tell you where it is or before you go print your map or make a note of it. It always worked up until the last few years and I expect it still does. Or you could get a more detailed map to start with. It's called preparation.
Er...why not? It's worked for probably centuries! How did anyone ever manage to travel in this country or anywhere in the the world for the last 1000 years or so? You're not suggesting this generation are less able in that respect than every previous one, are you? Quote:
Just download the maps for offline use before you go - cheaper than using the internet, and won't drain your battery as fast, and no need to worry about reception.
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This has nothing to do with Brexit. And everything to do with (foreign owned) phone companies looking to rip the British phone user off!
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Sounds like it might be pretty terrible if the European mobile networks choose to do this.
You're data plan with them fully covers you across a huge swaths of Europe and the wider world and has done for several years now. This sort of thing doesn't need a free trade agreement it simply needs mobile phone providers to make deals with each other. |
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Three.
You're data plan with them fully covers you across a huge swaths of Europe and the wider world and has done for several years now. This sort of thing doesn't need a free trade agreement it simply needs mobile phone providers to make deals with each other. This sort of thing patently does need international action, given that the pricing was stuck in the 90s and hasn't moved, even though the network operators already have negotiated "deals" to make sure that they pay as little as possible to the other network It astounds me how certain people are so opposed to progress. |
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Well its good you aren't bothered about this - however why not think a bit further afield than your own situation? Smart phones are fully integrated in how we live these days - massive increases in data costs will negatively affect many people.
And besides, Brussels should never have meddled in EU roaming charges anyway, because all that happened is that that lost revenue started being recouped via other means by phone companies by increasing the cost of other things. You want to use your phone elsewhere in the world? Cough up for the charges. It's quite incredible that something like 'roaming charges' seems to be being put forward as a reason that we should have voted to remain in the EU. |
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http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/b...r-nations.html
So on top of holidays already costing far more due to Sterling being in the toilet, using our phones abroad is going to shoot up, The EU has done a great job of stamping down on phone companies ripping us off when in other EU countries - don't expect Theresa May's government to be so tough on the likes of Vodafone post Brexit. Its somewhat depressing how more expensive life is going to become post Brexit, for little discernible benefit. |
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You could buy a spare payg sim that would work in the EU. That's what I do when I visit countries outside of the EU.
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You brexiters really are spiteful.
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Blimey, where's Nick1966 on his fav topic.
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Holiday in Britain and don't phone anybody. "Problem" solved. You can thank me later. Cheers
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You could buy a spare payg sim that would work in the EU. That's what I do when I visit countries outside of the EU.
That is a major reason why a truly European success story - the GSM mobile standard - was developed (as each country used their own, totally incompatible mobile system). Reasons why buying new SIMs for every country is a crap and impractical idea have already been discussed in this thread. Brexiters have always had a problem imagining the big picture and the long term implications of their suggestions, though - just a shame that we'll actually have to experience it in real life, rather than as rants on an online forum. |
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Or we could have an agreement that brings the cost of roaming down, allowing seamless use of the same phone and same number no matter where you travel in the EU, by forcing retail prices to actually follow wholesale costs.
That is a major reason why a truly European success story - the GSM mobile standard - was developed (as each country used their own, totally incompatible mobile system). Reasons why buying new SIMs for every country is a crap and impractical idea have already been discussed in this thread. Brexiters have always had a problem imagining the big picture and the long term implications of their suggestions, though - just a shame that we'll actually have to experience it in real life, rather than as rants on an online forum. |
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Holiday in Britain and don't phone anybody. "Problem" solved. You can thank me later. Cheers
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Love how everyone believes these stories.
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