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Effendi
18-09-2009, 09:22
Did you know this?
Global Networks Antarctica +88234 (http://www.gsm.aq/)
dg7feq
18-09-2009, 10:34
cool. give phones to the penguins! :-)
djmonsi
18-09-2009, 11:57
and the polar bears
petkow
18-09-2009, 13:31
and the polar bears

No coverage yet for those poor guys! They have the misfortune of living around the other pole!
djmonsi
20-09-2009, 01:02
oh.. i was under the impression that they are also found in antarctica! bad geography :p
PhotoJim
20-09-2009, 03:59
oh.. i was under the impression that they are also found in antarctica! bad geography :p

Penguins! :)
DRNewcomb
20-09-2009, 16:13
and the polar bears
The polar bears already get their phones in Canada, Greenland, Norway (Svalbard) and parts of Alaska.
maccoy
21-09-2009, 09:47
And they can't roam in Iceland.
fedeprovenza
23-09-2009, 21:09
Cool even if frozen :-)
kiwisteve
24-09-2009, 01:26
The battery would freeze unless you had it well covered in internal pockets !! Most of the Comms is on Intelsat @169 E and linked back to NZ and USA
meir
24-09-2009, 20:49
Excellent. If there is someone going to buy SIM card for himself, please get one for me as well. Thanks in advance.

P.S. I invite you in to my Hong Kong place until you are totally defrosted.
GadgetKen
04-10-2009, 03:16
An Antarctica sim card would definitely be a collector's item!

Roaming rates in Antarctica are expensive. AT&T postpaid is US$2.29/minute at the Argentinian Marimbio base(they have a CTI Movil/Nokia GSM base station). An Iridium satphone would be less at US$1.49/minute or less. Probably a better deal if someone were stationed there...but I doubt there are bargain rates for international calls since all calls have to go via satellite.

Personally I'd much rather be using my Digicel prepaid sim chip in Bermuda or the Caribbean from a nice sunny beach!
monkeyboy
09-03-2010, 04:48
many are called, few are frozen...
vegemite
10-05-2010, 23:40
Polar bears are northern hemisphere. Penguins are southern hemisphere. Antarctica is an actual continent, in the southern hemisphere, with possibly 10,000 or more people?
petkow
11-05-2010, 01:06
.. with possibly 10,000 or more people?
I would guess much much less. Possibly only a quarter of that at the most, and that too only in the summer. Only a skeleton crew ever spends the winter there.

Interestingly I heard that Antartica is the only continent in the world that is not connected via submarine fibre-optic cables. All comms and internet for the Scientists down there goes via satellite.
bylo
11-05-2010, 12:26
The polar bears already get their phones in Canada, Greenland, Norway (Svalbard) and parts of Alaska.

Lately they've been busy with other matters: Grizzlies, polar bears interbreeding, DNA test shows (http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/article/803370--grizzlies-polar-bears-interbreeding-dna-test-shows")
vegemite
17-05-2010, 08:13
Polar bears are in the NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, we are talking about Antarctica which is in the SOUTHERN hemisphere.. Geesh.
petkow
17-05-2010, 08:46
"Chill" ;) The geography lesson you've tried to give us twice already happened half a year ago at the head of the thread and the quote by DrNewcomb (quoted above) was in response to that.