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@@ -13,11 +13,16 @@ Top camp: 00 43 664 582 5229 - incoming calls and texts only. <br>
Top camp: 00 43 664 871 6782 - what it uses to send texts and make calls (from 2018)
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<p>After many years of using complicated radio systems of varying degrees of complication and reliability, we have finally settled on a foolproof method for communicating callouts from top camp to base camp: mobile phones. Cheap Austrian pay-as-you-go mobiles have sufficiently good reception on the plateau for sending SMS messages, and even occasionally for conversation.</p>
<p>After many years of using complicated radio systems of varying degrees of complication and reliability,
we have finally settled on a foolproof method for communicating callouts from top camp to base camp: mobile phones.
Cheap Austrian pay-as-you-go mobiles have sufficiently good reception on the plateau for sending SMS messages,
and even occasionally for conversation.</p>
<p>For some years (including 2018) we have been using the "B-Free" mobile scheme provided by the A1 company.
We get reception even inside the Stone Bridge bivvy.
(In 2011 we tried using another provider which picked up the T-Mobile network,
however the reception was not as good as B-Free.)
<p>B-Free&nbsp;has an annual renewal of the SIM which gets you the phone number and connection (plus some credit). More credit comes in the form of a receipt with a printed code or a card with a scratch-off secret number.</p>
<p>B-Free&nbsp;has an annual renewal of the SIM which gets you the phone number and connection (plus some credit).
More credit comes in the form of a receipt with a printed code or a card with a scratch-off secret number.</p>
<h3>Robust phone<img src="t/ruggear-p860-explorer-02-th.jpg" align="right" margin="5px"></h3>
We use "feature phones" with real buttons not smartphones with touch sensitive screens.
The top camp phone is particularly robust Russian
@@ -28,7 +33,7 @@ It has 2 SIM slots whcih is really useful when we fail to renew last-years SIM i
<p>This has to be done in less than 13 months otherwise it costs a more as you
essentially have to start from scratch (~&euro;10 for a new SIM with &euro5 of
credit). The phone cannot be used in the last month, but renewal is cheaper
than starting from scratch.</p>
than starting from scratch. "Renewal" is just a matter of buying another &euro;20 credit.</p>
<h3>Checking credit</h3>
<p>The simplest way (which doesn't require understanding a number read out to
you in German) is to dial <b>*101#</b> ("0 BALANCE" in the contacts list in the phone book). This doesn't actually make a
@@ -63,7 +68,7 @@ possibly under the name "0 ADD CREDIT" or "_ ADD CREDIT")</li>
particular spot to check messages, try dialling the balance request
number (<b>*101#</b>) once there - this usually seems to trigger delivery of any
pending SMS messages.</li>
<li> Commonly used numbers are put at the top of the phone book in each phone
<li> Commonly used numbers are put at the top of the contact list ("phone book") in each phone
by prefixing the name with "0 " or "_", e.g. "0 ADD CREDIT", "0 BALANCE", "0 BASE CAMP" etc.
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