Phoning Norfolk Island

Nomis21

Warning: Don't phone your friends and family in Norfolk Island using Tesco Mobile.

Calls cost a staggering Euro 3.99 a minute to a mobile or landline in Norfolk Island

For the same price as talking for an hour to Norfolk Island, you could buy a brand new laptop in Argos

Mind you, it's only 1 cent a minute to call China. Funny that.

uch

Gas altogether

Dr.Internet

what's the costs of calls to Narnia ?

Capt'n Midnight

There's Norfolk 'n chance I'll be ringing there then.

Menas

Fletcher Christianson never had this problem.

Spanish Eyes

Jaysus I'm no spring chicken but WTF wattapps and viber and skype and all that.

Should I go back to bed now since I am not twenty something anymore or what the F.

kneemos

Dr.Internet wrote: »

what's the costs of calls to Narnia ?

Three Goblins and a Fairy.

eisenberg1

Are my eyes deceiving me, was the title of this thread
Not about Nauro ?

kneemos

Would asking where Norfolk Island is be a stupid question?

Washington Irving

kneemos wrote: »

Would asking where Norfolk Island is be a stupid question?

Some relatively remote island in the south Pacific. Call prices seem unsurprising to be honest.

The_Valeyard

Are we invading or something?

KungPao

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Are my eyes deceiving me, was the title of this thread
Not about Nauro ?

It was indeed, 'twas changed.

Charlie19

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

There's Norfolk 'n chance I'll be ringing there then.

Close the thread after this beauty.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Didn't Leonardo Dicaprio make a film about that island?

If you go there don't smoke their fags and if you meet an oul wan in a cave don't listen to the mad cnut.

biko

I have neither friends nor family in Norfolk Island nor have I Tesco Mobile.

What did you expect it would cost? The island is in the fokken Pacific Ocean...

antodeco

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

There's Norfolk 'n chance I'll be ringing there then.

That joke is Suffolk'n good!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I thought that a good price to call one of the most remote places on Earth.

cml387

Shaun Black Elf wrote: »

I thought that a good price to call one of the most remote places on Earth.

Not as remote as St Helena.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

cml387 wrote: »

Not as remote as St Helena.

They're in the same band for call charges though; along with Palau.

kylith

Well, sht. My entire family lives on Norfolk Island. How will I contact a tiny island 1400 miles past the arse-end of nowhere now?

biko

Well you can try another mobile provider except Tesco Mobile, apparently they charge 4 euro per minute to call the other side of the planet using your mobile phone.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

There's Norfolk 'n chance I'll be ringing there then.

Not enough rolleyes on my keyboard for your predictable joke.

dxhound2005

cml387 wrote: »

Not as remote as St Helena.

I heard Radio St Helena on my actual radio, not over the internet. They used to broadcast one day a year on shortwave and I got their QSL (confirmation of reception) card for two of those years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Saint_Helena

Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world. It is also in the South Atlantic.

The Backwards Man

I went to school with a fella that works on some of them flat islands that's in danger of sinking. He got bit by a badger in college. God help them!

dpofloinn

Nomis21 wrote: »

Warning: Don't phone your friends and family in Norfolk Island using Tesco Mobile.

Calls cost a staggering Euro 3.99 a minute to a mobile or landline in Norfolk Island

For the same price as talking for an hour to Norfolk Island, you could buy a brand new laptop in Argos

Mind you, it's only 1 cent a minute to call China. Funny that.

Norfolk'n way thats mad

Nomis21

biko wrote: »

I have neither friends nor family in Norfolk Island nor have I Tesco Mobile.

What did you expect it would cost? The island is in the fokken Pacific Ocean...

So is Australia, but it's only one cent a minute to call there.

Nomis21

dxhound2005 wrote: »

I heard Radio St Helena on my actual radio, not over the internet. They used to broadcast one day a year on shortwave and I got their QSL (confirmation of reception) card for two of those years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Saint_Helena

Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world. It is also in the South Atlantic.

It only costs one euro fifty to call there.

I just think that Tesco is showing extreme prejudice when costing calls to Norfolk Island.

TheLastMohican

Speaking dirty to a woman is sexual harassment

A woman

speaking dirty to you is $3.99 a minute

calling you from Norfolk Island is $3.99

Next!

Ciderswigger

TheLastMohican wrote: »

Speaking dirty to a woman is sexual harassment

A woman

speaking dirty to you is $3.99 a minute

calling you from Norfolk Island is $3.99

Next!

Wha'?

TheLastMohican

Ciderswigger wrote: »

Wha'?

Sorry, your time is up. $4 more. KA-CHING!

Sofiztikated

dpofloinn wrote: »

Norfolk'n way thats mad

The same joke was made 8 hours ago. And it's not a long thread, shouldn't be hard to keep up.

Nomis21 wrote: »

So is Australia, but it's only one cent a minute to call there.

The amount of people ringing Australia and China far exceeds the amount ringing Norfolk f*cking Island. It's not hard to comprehend.

FluffyAngel

Denis o Brien is behind this.....































water baron me arse.....:D

FluffyAngel

dxhound2005 wrote: »

I heard Radio St Helena on my actual radio, not over the internet. They used to broadcast one day a year on shortwave and I got their QSL (confirmation of reception) card for two of those years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Saint_Helena

Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world. It is also in the South Atlantic.

Whats Radio?

kneemos

FluffyAngel wrote: »

Whats Radio?

Too soon dude.

emigrate2012

Do you know anyone on this island?
Have you pressing business to conduct, post haste, using tesco mobile with the inhabitants?





Didn't think so, who gives a gnats fart.
What a terrible excuse for a thread.
I'm off to peruse pornhub, tis a better use of my right hand.

ArseBurger

Nomis21 wrote: »

Warning: Don't phone your friends and family in Norfolk Island using Tesco Mobile.

Calls cost a staggering Euro 3.99 a minute to a mobile or landline in Norfolk Island

That's what it costs when you call a 35Km sq island in the middle of nowhere serviced by satellite networks for voice and data with a single incumbent operator and approximately 1,500 telecom users.

Nomis21 wrote: »

For the same price as talking for an hour to Norfolk Island, you could buy a brand new laptop in Argos

Mind you, it's only 1 cent a minute to call China. Funny that.

Different products and different markets. Not that funny at all really.

emigrate2012

Ring Joe Duffy, he might give a ****, maybe.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

emigrate2012 wrote: »

Ring Joe Duffy, he might give a ****, maybe.

What if he's on Norfolk Island?

TheLastMohican

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

What if he's on Norfolk Island?

Who Princess? Who?

petrolcan

If only Tesco Mobile had a list of upfront call charges somewhere....

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

TheLastMohican wrote: »

Who Princess? Who?

The One Who Listens.

Peregrinus

This isn't rocket science, people. If you have a very remote place with a very small population, the substantial fixed costs of installing and maintaining telecommunications infrastructure have to be recovered from charges levied on a relatively small volume of phone calls. Hence, a high per-minute cost.

Knasher

Well that is my Saturday ruined then. I feel like a fool for ordering that Norfolk Island phone book now. There is only about 2000 people there, so at least it the shipping wasn't that expensive.

Capt'n Midnight

FluffyAngel wrote: »

Whats Radio?

Einstein famously used analogies to explain how radio works:

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this?

And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

Nodin

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Einstein famously used analogies to explain how radio works:

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this?

And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

So essentially never let Einstein mind your cat when you're away. Or that Schrodinger fucker.

Dr.Internet

Radio Norfolk, the grave yard shift

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIYgzh1xGs0

TheLastMohican

I once had a Norfolk broad ....... she were gorgeous, she were! Legs right up to chacha, a pair of huge bazookas and lots of Daddy issues.

Read this out loud with an Alan Partridge accent!

corner of hells

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I went to school with a fella that works on some of them flat islands that's in danger of sinking. He got bit by a badger in college. God help them!

Has everyone read this post , tell us more about him being bitten by a badger ?

Pataman

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I went to school with a fella that works on some of them flat islands that's in danger of sinking. He got bit by a badger in college. God help them!

Wow progressive thinkers there, letting badgers study in college. What course was the badger doing?

eisenberg1

Pataman wrote: »

Wow progressive thinkers there, letting badgers study in college. What course was the badger doing?

Studying Burroughs