• Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    This time last year I stayed on Bardsey Island, off the Welsh Coast. There’s hardly any phone signal on the island, but they warned everyone to turn off roaming on their phones anyway. It turns out that because of the mountain on the island blocking the signal from the UK, lots of phones automatically connect to Irish providers, and cost more than people expect

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      7 months ago

      It’s weird they wouldn’t work with a UK based telco to set up a relay station explicitly to prevent this.

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          7 months ago

          The telco likely doesnt make any extra from the roaming, they very likely pay it all out to the company the roaming took place on.

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        7 months ago

        The island is tiny, and only has about half a dozen houses on it. The visitors are there because it’s a nature reserve, so generally don’t want to be on their phones anyway. It’s not worth setting up a relay station over just telling everyone before they get there.