Thread: CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?)
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Old March 15th 12, 08:22 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
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Default Phone roaming in the US and Canada was card numbers, wascards, was E-ZPass, was CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?)
On 13/03/2012 09:32, wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:55:58 +0000, Charles Ellson
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:08:51 -0700, "Roger Traviss"
wrote:

If you have an out of country phone in either Canada or the United
States, the roaming costs to go to the other country are noticeable.


Here in Victoria, if you are down by the waterfront, you may get hit by
roaming changes for even a local call.

Why? Because your call gets picked up by a cell tower in Blaine, Washington
State. :-)

That has been alleged to have happened on English south coast
shores/beaches which are screened from the local transmitter by high
cliffs but within range of French base stations.

A feature which was most useful when working on the South/West side of
the Isle of Wight where the French networks held the connection with
less dropouts than the UK ones.

G.Harman

Inetersting, I have never picked up a French signal on the Isle of
Wight's south side. Strangely enough, however, my iPhone once locked
onto a signal from the Republic of Ireland when I was in northern Wales.

I remember that mobile phone providers on Ireland were not charging
people from either side of the border to roam on their network, partly
due to the fact that the mobile phones for residents in the border area
where constantly switching to the cross-border providers. Do other
countries in Europe have such a feature in place?
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