Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dave Royal Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Two Questions Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 12:48:26 +0000 (GMT) Organization: news.eternal-september.org Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:48:26 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="38acaa0d28b538f2fb7c939d20bd3189"; logging-data="1700626"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18QOOnazoMOOqsptcbeSFjb" Cancel-Lock: sha1:WH+Q2Zg+CpPm2Wg76239THd7Jq0= X-Newsreader: Mod.PiaoHong.Usenet.Client:2.02.M16 Bytes: 3549 "Carlos E.R." Wrote in message: > On 2024-12-05 09:10, Chris wrote: >> Carlos E.R. wrote: >>> On 2024-12-05 00:26, Chris wrote: >>>> Frank Slootweg wrote: >>>>> Carlos E.R. wrote: >>>>>> On 2024-12-04 19:54, Chris wrote: >>>>>>> Carlos E.R. wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> >>>> Actually you can add the country code to all your calls and the >>>> operator/network works out whether it's local or international. Makes life >>>> a lot easier when storing and dialling contacts when away from home. >>>> >>>> All my UK numbers start with +44 regardless of whether I call from home or >>>> abroad. >>> >>> Absolutely. >>> >>> But, assuming he starts the visit on Spain, then goes to Italy. He wants >>> to call a taxi, after seeing the number somewhere. You have to add the >>> prefix, which will not be printed in adverts and such. They assume local. >> >> True. I guess the OP needs to find what the county code are. I know France >> is +33. What's Spain? > > +34 > > Italy I don't know. Ah, +39 > > https://countrycode.org/italy > >>> And they will see the foreign number, which might surprise them. >>> Hopefully they don't geofence. >> >> I would suspect not given tourists will be regular users of taxis, >> especially in touristy areas. > > That's true. > > But the other day there were some comments here about restaurants that > would not accept reservations unless you were near, so difficult to do > from the car while travelling to that city, and used gps spoofing to > fool the system. > > gps would match, phone number not. I found restaurants in Greece somtimes wouldn't answer foreign numbers so I always made reservations with a local SIM. Mainly because the older staff (the owner's mother, or grandmother even) were not confident in English. A few words of greek were required. Taxis, no such problem IME - so long as you can describe where you are. -- Remove numerics from my email address.