Ship's Maritime Mobile Roaming Network Causes Problems on Norfolk UK Coast - ISPreview UK
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Submitted 5 days ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
As someone who lives near a major international border, I also run into this problem, but I’m also fucking confused why this is even a problem. The phone has a fucking GPS built in. It knows exactly where it is at all times. There is no excuse for this except greedy providers and cowardly regulators.
If I am standing on my country’s soil, using an unmodified cellphone, within a reasonable margin of error, I should pay my country’s local rates. Full stop. That should be a legal obligation. If telecom providers want to bake that into their roaming agreements with international and specialty providers like that, so they must accept my calls and bill me accordingly, fine. If they want to make the phone refuse to connect to the roaming tower at all and force it to connect to a lower strength local tower, also fine. If because of technical reasons or interference they really cannot do that so that it would just lose service altogether, maybe a popup saying that my national connection has been lost and asking if I want to start roaming, rather than a text saying “Heads up! You’re roaming suddenly and we can charge you whatever we want now!”
It’s not that fucking hard. Make. It. Make. Sense.