{"id":688,"date":"2006-04-04T22:24:45","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T22:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drrnwbb.com\/blogadmin\/?p=688"},"modified":"2009-08-06T22:42:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T19:42:24","slug":"cracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/cracked\/","title":{"rendered":"cracked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20060404.03.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" border=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>living in an epicentre of mobile telecommunications i am expected (by some of my friends in ireland) to have a super fancy nokia phone (the company is finnish &#8211; ergo they must be really cheap here &#8211; the same logic that had me on my school tour to holland\/amsterdam when i was 13 hoping to buy dozens of blank c90 tapes as philips were a dutch company. flawed logic it turned out to be).<\/p>\n<p>phones arent subsidised here in the same way as back in ireland &#8211; something that costs 50euros (phone + contract inclusive) would cost 600&euro; here (phone). so when i came back last week from a few days away i noticed all these ads full of old bulky brick phones &#8220;suomessa on melkeinp&auml; euroopaan vanhimmat puhlimet &#8211; siirry nykyaikaan&#8221; (in finland, the phones are almost the oldest in europe &#8211; come into the present). so the anti subsidising law was withdrawn for (3g) phones from april the 1st. so now there is at last some way of getting a cheap phone. <\/p>\n<p>my current operator, saunalahti (a virtual operator), has these <a href=\"http:\/\/saunalahti.fi\/gsm\/3gpaketit.php\">amazing deals<\/a> &#8211; in most cases you get a 3g phone for free &#8211; but pay 20euros a month (including 3000minutes a month!!!!). a great offer &#8211; but a bit overkill for my needs (i make on average 8 minutes of phone calls a month) &#8211; it was tempting though!.<\/p>\n<p>in conclusion, the fizzy cola sweet i got in k citymarket yesterday wasnt too nice. fingers crossed some new packages come onto the market soon that give me a free cool phone and free smses or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>living in an epicentre of mobile telecommunications i am expected (by some of my friends in ireland) to have a super fancy nokia phone (the company is finnish &#8211; ergo they must be really cheap here &#8211; the same logic that had me on my school tour to holland\/amsterdam when i was 13 hoping to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internets","category-randomness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}