Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork

Re:Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork by akerro on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:44AM (#17456937)

Maybe worth looking into how Amazon Kindle solved it years ago? They offered free GSM/3G? access to the internet, something like 150MB/monthly, unlimited access to Wikipedia, in so many countries, basically everywhere.

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Re:Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork by PMan74 on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:54AM (#17456978)

And car companies presumably have global agreements e.g. I can drive my car across Europe and have all the navigation related stuff continue to work.

But easier for Amazon or big car company to broker such an agreement. I think the question is how would Joe Public get something like this.

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Re:Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork by cr1895 on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @09:02AM (#17457018)

>I can drive my car across Europe and have all the navigation related stuff continue to work.

Well, since a year or two EU-wide free roaming is a thing.

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Re:Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork by codetrotter on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @09:02AM (#17457017)

How many of those navigation systems use the internet though? Most consumer grade car navigation systems use offline maps.

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Re:Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork by PMan74 on Thursday July 05, 2018 @04:14AM (#17461645)

I was thinking the same as I typed the comment but my assumption is that there has to be some kind of mobile data because of #1 live traffic updates & #2 map updates.

On #1 comment below says this is done by radio RDS

On #2 however there has to be a way to update the maps in the car as roads (new roads, closures, lane changes, speed limits, etc.) change. My assumption was that car makers hardly expect people to manually update these maps. And likewise could probably not live with the liability of years old data in the maps. But looks like I may be incorrect here http://updateportal.skoda-auto.com

BMW at least have actual SIM cards in the cars so original point stands.

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Re:Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork by filleokus on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @09:39AM (#17457187)

Many of them (at least in cars < 5 years old) that I've used have had some kind of real-time traffic/congestion/construction info built into the system. I guess these use some kind of internet based communication?

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Re:Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork by burning_hamster on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @09:46AM (#17457220)

Radio, actually: https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-does-live-traffic-on-...

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