Emergency motorway number?

Woody wrote:

> Try Lemon - most of Yorkshire is an Orange-free zone!!


Don't think so. I use it in Yorkshire all the time: never out of signal.

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On Dec 11, 9:29*am, Iain <[email protected]> wrote:
> BGN wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:39:30 +0000, Iain <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > My mum has a mobile phone. *It's pink. *She doesn't use it because
> > "Nobody ever calls me." *This is because her phone is generally off
> > and she only turns it on when she needs it. *And when she needs it
> > it's generally run out of juice because she only charges once every
> > 400 years. *My mum uses the motorway too.
>
> I have a spare GSM/WLAN VOIP phone in my computer bag. I last charged it
> in September. Last week I switched it on and the battery level is over
> half full.
>
> A non-faulty battery only needs charging every three months.

So in your nanny state apart from having a mobile charged every 3
months and stored permanently in any road going vehicle and staying
within areas of good mobile signal. Any other pre-requisites for your
motorway recovery service?

Woby Tide wrote:
> On Dec 11, 9:29 am, Iain <[email protected]> wrote:

> So in your nanny state apart from having a mobile charged every 3
> months and stored permanently in any road going vehicle and staying
> within areas of good mobile signal. Any other pre-requisites for your
> motorway recovery service?

Utter rubbish. There are emergency phones all along the motorway. You
don't need a mobile phone at all, and you're far better using the
emergency phones.

Iain <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mark BR wrote:
> >
> > Also it seems to me many mobile phones suffer from lack of signal, flat
> > batteries and other problems on an almost daily basis (now I'm exaggerating)
>
> More than exaggerating! When was the last time you suffered a lack of
> signal on a motorway?

Motorways have generally good coverage, but there are dead & weak spots
on there.

> Flat battery? Most phones last a week or more on
> standby.

Since I 'upgraded' from a 6310i. Regularly. Now I've got an N95 with GPS
& 3G and... frequently. I can get the N95s battery down to less than a
day. GPS will kill it in half a day.
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On Dec 11, 3:24*pm, Iain <[email protected]> wrote:
> Woby Tide wrote:
> > On Dec 11, 9:29 am, Iain <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So in your nanny state apart from having a mobile charged every 3
> > months and stored permanently in any road going vehicle and staying
> > within areas of good mobile signal. Any other pre-requisites for your
> > motorway recovery service?
>
> Utter rubbish. There are emergency phones all along the motorway. You
> don't need a mobile phone at all, and you're far better using the
> emergency phones.

The post you replied to about people having mobiles and battery
charges stemmed from a conversation where someone suggested removing
the fixed emergency phones as "the majority of motorway users have a
mobile phone(that is always charged)"

Woby Tide wrote:

>
> The post you replied to about people having mobiles and battery
> charges stemmed from a conversation where someone suggested removing
> the fixed emergency phones as "the majority of motorway users have a
> mobile phone(that is always charged)"

Yes, it did.

You replied to that post too. does that mean you think emergency phones
should be removed?

Jon B wrote:

> Since I 'upgraded' from a 6310i. Regularly. Now I've got an N95 with GPS
> & 3G and... frequently. I can get the N95s battery down to less than a
> day. GPS will kill it in half a day.

You used to have an adult's phone. Now you have a spoiled child's toy.

In news:[email protected],
BGN <[email protected]> typed, for some strange, unexplained reason:
: On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:39:30 +0000, Iain <[email protected]>
: wrote:
:
: >> Also it seems to me many mobile phones suffer from lack of signal,
: >> flat batteries and other problems on an almost daily basis (now
: >> I'm exaggerating)
: >
: >More than exaggerating! When was the last time you suffered a lack of
: >signal on a motorway? Flat battery? Most phones last a week or more
: >on standby.
:
: My mum has a mobile phone. It's pink. She doesn't use it because
: "Nobody ever calls me." This is because her phone is generally off
: and she only turns it on when she needs it. And when she needs it
: it's generally run out of juice because she only charges once every
: 400 years. My mum uses the motorway too.

My mum flatly refuses to have a mobile phone.

"I don't want people calling me when I'm out"
"How will they do that unless you give them the number, mother..?!"
".........!"


Ivor

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:34:22 +0000, BGN <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 19:54:21 -0000, "Sla#s" <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>Don't know if this has been discussed before...
>>
>>Is there or has it ever been proposed to have an emergency phone number one
>>can call from a mobile when broken down on a motorway?
>
>RAC or AA.

Why do you expect the RAC or the AA to respond to a call from someone
who isn't a member of either organisation?
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Cheers

Peter

In news:[email protected],
Petert <[email protected]> typed, for some strange,
unexplained reason:
: On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:34:22 +0000, BGN <[email protected]>
: wrote:
:
: >On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 19:54:21 -0000, "Sla#s" <[email protected]>
: >wrote:
: >
: >>Don't know if this has been discussed before...
: >>
: >>Is there or has it ever been proposed to have an emergency phone
: >>number one can call from a mobile when broken down on a motorway?
: >
: >RAC or AA.
:
: Why do you expect the RAC or the AA to respond to a call from someone
: who isn't a member of either organisation?

Who said that..? The idea is that you join such an organisation before
driving on a motorway. Anyone who doesn't make provision for possible
breakdowns when driving is a fool.

Ivor

In news:[email protected],
[email protected] <[email protected]> typed, for some strange,
unexplained reason:

[snip]

: Anyone who is willing to pay the extortionate subscriptions for
: membership of these organizations is a bigger fool.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall when you receive the bill for being towed
off the M6, Ron.

Ivor

[email protected] wrote:

> Anyone who is willing to pay the extortionate subscriptions for
> membership of these organizations is a bigger fool.

It's rare that I agree with you, so best celebrate this rare occasion.

The other organisations are both better and cheaper.