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Re:One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are ... by joecot on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:30AM (#33178451)
You don't. But in the US I'm rarely in a place where I have no data but SMS still works. And Europe has more effective telecom service.
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Re:One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are ... by culturestate on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:57AM (#33178895)
> Europe has more effective telecom service

Some of Europe has very effective telecom infrastructure, but that's far from universal.

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Re:One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are ... by dghughes on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:12PM (#33179122)
Cries in Canadian :(
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Re:One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are ... by culturestate on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:26PM (#33179314)
It could be worse. Service is so famously bad in Germany that they invented a word for it - Funklochrepublik, which basically means "radio hole republic."
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