Orange in the USA?

[andy]

Originally Posted by petkow

There are also of course those 'picocells' on passenger ferrys and cruise ships. On a crossing from France to UK I got some icelandic carrier! (can't remember who it was though I remember getting the Roaming SMS with "Welcome to Iceland" etc.)

Even across the Channel ?! Not Dover - Calais then. Which ferry company - one with longer Spanish routes as well?

It reminds me - the first time I ever used a mobile phone was 1989, borrowed from a friend, to the UK from the docks at Caen. Roaming hadn't been invented that I know of, and I'm not sure if UK and French analogue networks were compatible (or whether there even was a French one).

I've never checked up on this or whether the signal would have been across the sea. I didn't even think to ask J whether he'd used the phone in the previous 2 weeks; then it just seemed like something expensive I wouldn't contemplate for a few years (my brother-in-law used to work for Vodafone - near the beginning the merchant commission on a contract sale was £1400!)

Originally Posted by petkow

Thanks Andy... On second thoughts it may be wise for me to stay out of there. Knowing me, I will change some setting and kill a phone!

Likewise - that's why I saved it in a Favourites folder and forgot about it until you asked