Comment Re:As a UK resident... (Score 1) 314
Define extortionate.
I have a UK monthly phone contract, and if I take the Eurostar 200 miles to France, it will cost me £1.30 a minute to make a call (to the UK/France) or 80p per minute to receive a call. In fact, the call costs are almost identical if I take my phone to Hong Kong to make local calls (which is much further away than Paris if I remember correctly), except when I go to Hong Kong now instead I pick up a local cheap Pay As You Go sim card.
I have a UK monthly phone contract, and if I take the Eurostar 200 miles to France, it will cost me £1.30 a minute to make a call (to the UK/France) or 80p per minute to receive a call. In fact, the call costs are almost identical if I take my phone to Hong Kong to make local calls (which is much further away than Paris if I remember correctly), except when I go to Hong Kong now instead I pick up a local cheap Pay As You Go sim card.
