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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why prevent it, when you can just shrug your shoulders and rake in the money?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 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.