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Errand day. Stop at Telsim to try to revive our mobile phone sim. Mixed feelings about it. Now no longer have a Canadian mobile account since our last provider folded when we were just about to leave for the winter anyway. Do have a cheapie UK account. Would find it convenient to have a Turkish Cypriot account to communicate with government, which understandably doesn’t wish to have to send international messages. Several competing caveats:
* Rarely use mobile for phone calls or texts - anywhere but UK. Elsewhere WiFi/VOIP for almost everything
* In TRNC can use WhatsApp for almost everything except government communication, when WiFi available
* Can use UK sim in Canada but many friends can’t respond to non-North American
* If non-TRNC sim used in TRNC for more than 3 months, phone is cut off
* Increasingly correspondence with organisations demands a mobile number. Online forms won’t work without. Humans unavailable to discuss options
* Many forms that request a phone number are not designed to accept a non- North American number.
Notwithstanding all of the above, on rare occasions when it’s important to make an actual, non WiFi enhanced call it can be extremely important, though presumably if an ambulance were required someone better equipped would summon it. And in fact many phones will make an emergency call without a functional sim. Or so the phones say. Obviously reluctant to make a test call.
Nice young lady at Telsim undertakes to communicate with head office re our having cleared previous minor debt with same down to a misunderstanding. We inquire about their inexpensive seniors’ plan. She hesitates and then asks our ages. You have to be over 65. So far we’re sold on her, if not on Telsim.
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