Posted: Aug 15, 2017 11:03 pm
by monkeyboy
My folks have 3 and EE sims between them. Up in the boonies top end of Scotland and in the Highlands, they dropped off the grid regularly for days at a time when touring. It's a balance thing. There aren't many people up there and those that live there don't want the mountains covered in a shit load of masts to get coverage in all the glens.
There was a time when we coped running around up there without mobile phones and we're still here to tell the tale. My youth was full of hiking and fell running, the things weren't even a thing back then. I used to carry a couple of small parachute flares from my army days in case I really got in the shit. Never used them.