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Dude it's 2012...gigabytes haven't been precious for over a decade.
by moheeb 14y ago
Dude it's 2012...gigabytes haven't been precious for over a decade.
- xyzzyb 14y agoNeither has bandwidth. :-)
- sanswork 14y agoWhen travelling it often is. Mobile data rates are still prohibitively high in most places and wifi services have low caps.
- barrkel 14y agoOnly 3 GBP / MB when roaming. Remotely viewing a movie with a high-res encoding might only cost approximately the same as a car.
- Anderkent 14y agoWhy don't you just buy a local pre-paid SIM? Though I guess most of the time I'm travelling I'm on vacation, so don't need to be reachable on the usual number. That might be an issue if you're on a delegation.
- barrkel 14y agoThat's fine in theory, but you have to find a reasonable deal, find a shop to purchase it in, familiarize yourself with how to charge it up, and all in the time you spend in that country. I've found it burns at least half a day - usually not worth it. Most of my leisure travelling is motorbike touring, and I may spend each night in a different country, or cross borders several times a day (mountains with interesting roads are frequently on borders). If my travel was simpler, sure, it's somewhat workable, and I do have e.g. a German SIM. But it's usually better to just rely on hotel wifi, cached maps on phones, offline GPS on bikes, etc.
- dagw 14y agoOnly if you are at 'home'. If I where to use 3G on my phone when traveling in the US, I'd pay $17/MB! Even a 3 hour drive from my house (a trip a regularly make) will put me in a new country and I'm paying $7 for the first 50MB and then $3/pr additional MB. That makes watching movies kind of expensive.