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Landing in another country is one of the scenarios where you're most likely to be unable to access telecommunications. For example, you find your internet provi
by jbay808 6y ago
Landing in another country is one of the scenarios where you're most likely to be unable to access telecommunications. For example, you find your internet provider doesn't work internationally, you can't enable roaming without visiting their website, your phone isn't compatible with the local spectrum, your credit card gets fraud-flagged when you try to buy a local sim card because you forgot to tell Visa you'd be travelling, and you discover there's rules against paying in cash for a phone plan.
These are all just some of the things that can go wrong arriving in a foreign country!
- trhway 6y agoExactly. Otherwise what is the point of having an embassy if everything is to be done only online :)
- alibarber 6y agoYes that is unfortunate - but all out of the remit of what an embassy will help you with. Maybe if things have gone so wrong for you that you throw loosing your passport into the mix, or being physically detained by the police in the host nation then perhaps they'll help out. But, at least for my own country, they're definitely not there to help you with connectivity issues.
- jbay808 6y agoYeah of course they're not. My post is about not being able to contact an embassy (or any other critical service) that offers only a web interface, when you have embassy-relevant business to discuss. It happens that the very time when you most might need the service of an embassy coincides with times when you are least likely to be able to access the internet: freshly arriving on foreign soil. The post is not about expecting the embassy to fix your internet connection, just to anticipate your lack of it.