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Seamus Reilly (F64)
was fuming with rage when Call Sign met him recently. "I’ve had this Nokia N86 mobile phone just a few weeks and it has cost me a sizeable sum of money in both £s and Euros," he gushed while waving his newly acquired technological wizardry in the air as if to launch it into orbit. "I was at Luton airport recently en route to my holiday apartment in Tenerife. I lifted the phone out of the tray having passed it through the security scanner and it was then I noticed there was a Spanish telephone number showing on the screen. I called the number and it turned out to be the lady who manages the apartment block in Tenerife asking me if all was well, because I had apparently called her three times from London but not spoken! I still don’t know how it happened, but the calls cost me £12 for nothing," he said. "Then when I arrived in Tenerife, I swapped my English pay-as-you-go phone card for my Spanish Euro card and used the mobile freely, calling friends locally and staying in touch with the UK as |
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do when soaking up the sun on holiday. But when I checked my phone
bill statement in Tenerife, I was staggered to find that I had run
up a mysterious €15 in internet charges over and above my usual
telephone calls. And I don’t even know how to access the internet on
this phone," Seamus exclaimed excitedly! "It must all have been because this phone slides open to access the keypad, which I probably inadvertently did, and the slightest movement whilst in my pocket sets it off into doing its own thing and costing me money! The reason I got the thing in the first place is |
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it has a superb camera, taking absolutely brilliant pictures," he
told us while at the same time demonstrating by deftly flipping open
the mobile to reveal an image of a crystal clear-blue sky and
sun-drenched beach of the Spanish island, recorded in fine detail on
the phone’s screen. "Such clarity makes it all worthwhile," he said "but I shall keep my eyes on that errant sliding keypad," Seamus said warily, "otherwise it could work out cheaper to hire my own photographer!" İCall Sign Magazine MMX |
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life as seen through the eyes of David Kupler (Y74) at… KUPKAKE’S KORNER |
Warren Meets Abby the cabby! |
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There are potholes everywhere I don't really care if the peddys fall in there in fact I'd rather like it. They're like a curse and what makes it worse the Mayor wants all to bike it! But it’s no joke my suspensions been broke and my tyre walls are damaged! In my view nothing out there's new and all is badly managed. Will a new regime sweep the mess clean or will it stay the same forever? You can rest assured the potholes will get cured until the next bad weather! Kopyright Kupkake 2010 |
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Dial-a-Cab’s Financial Controller, Warren Smith,
recently returned from a cruise around the Emirate states – and no,
he used his own money! Back at DaC House, Warren showed
Call Sign a photo of a cab driver with his new TX4 that
he saw at the docks and who offered to show him around Bahrain.
"I was stunned to see a TX4 so far away from London," Warren told us, "and it looked to be very clean and in very good nick as well considering how much sand there is around the place! The driver’s name was Abdul and his mastery of the English language – and apparently several others – was excellent. But what amazed me even more was his offer to accept not only Bahraini Dinars, but also UK sterling, |
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and Australian dollars, Euros and virtually any other currency you
could think of. He had his converter ready and waiting!" Abdul turned out to be one of around 200 of Bahrain’s taxi driving community who are now - or soon will be - driving the latest LTI TX4 cabs around the streets of Manama, picking up in Saar – home to most of the ambassadors and wealthy Bahrainis live – or waiting for tourists at the docks, as part of the newly formed Arabian Taxi Company. The last word went to Warren: "I have to admit to being impressed, not just by the fact that he had a new TX4, but by his general demeanour and business acumen. I just wasn’t expecting it. And the weather wasn’t bad either!" |
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