"andy" wrote in message
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On 30 Sep, 15:10, Mizter T wrote:
On Sep 30, 2:46 pm, andy wrote:

[snip]
Dover-Calais, even inside the restaurant, there's always some coverage
by UK or French networks on the passenger decks. Outside on top, it's
usually though not always possible to select one's UK network from
just outside Calais

You can pick up the French networks when walking along the cliffs near
Dover.

Of course, but I didn't mention it because as this is mainly British
readers we'd be less interested in doing so

I was once surprised to get 14 networks shown on a search from the top
of the ferry, on an old phone with 1800 MHz only. It wouldn't actually
log in to the Dutch ones though.


Too far for a GSM phone to work on the normal time shift multiplex,
some North Scandinavian cells use double time slots which roughly triple
the distance possible, but at the expense of only half the number of
possible users

Steve Terry
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