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unusual facts about roaming



Cordoba Agreement, 2006

Lifting of limits on dialling Gibraltar from Spain and mobile roaming in Spain for Gibraltar mobile phones

Corolla Wild Horses Protection Act

The Corolla Wild Horses Protection Act would direct the United States Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement with the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, Currituck County, and the state of North Carolina to provide for the management of free-roaming wild horses in and around the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge.

Everybody's on the Run

At the same time the man (Cameron Van Hoy) in a similar situation, has his delivered shoes stolen by a free-roaming skateboarder straight from his hands that was being mailed to him (shown in the beginning of the video).

FON

Linus: (named for Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux project): has a Fonera router, shares Wi-Fi and gets free roaming at others' Fon Spots.

Bill: (named for Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft): has a Fonera router, shares Wi-Fi, gets free roaming at any Fon Spot, and can get 50% of the net revenues when a visitor purchases a Fon pass at their Fon Spot.

Globul

In 2007 GLOBUL launched BlackBerry, the service is accessible from the network of GLOBUL as well as from the roaming partners of GLOBUL.

Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne

They start singing and drumming, initially to scare off a roaming tiger, and in the process they attract a group of ghosts who are fascinated by their music.

Hong Kong CSL Limited

June 2012: CSL and SK Telecom, the largest mobile operator in Korea, launches the world’s first 4G LTE international roaming between their two markets – Hong Kong and Korea.

Hot mobile

It provides nationwide wireless service using UMTS, with supplemented coverage through a domestic roaming agreement with Pelephone (until they reach full coverage) and Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) technology (in the 800Mhz SMR band) with PTT service that appeals mainly to businesses and large organizations.

I wireless

In certain rural areas i wireless is the only GSM provider, providing roaming services for AT&T, T-Mobile USA, and other GSM carriers.

IFAST

The SID lets mobile phones that conform to the TIA Cellular or PCS Standard analog, CDMA or TDMA standards recognize when they are in their home system vs. roaming or in another system that can provide them with service.

This organization is the coordinator for the allocation of System Identification Numbers (SID) for wireless communication outside Canada, the United States and territories, and on the assignment of International Roaming mobile identification numbers (MINs), or IRM, for use in cellular mobile devices.

Mercury Meta One

The Meta One also featured built-in Sirius Satellite Radio and a roaming always-on Wi-Fi connection to deliver to the driver updated traffic conditions and real-time reports.

Mobile phone signal

This phenomenon, which is also common in other VHF radio bands including FM broadcasting, may also cause other anomalies, such as a person in San Diego "roaming" on a Mexican tower from just over the border in Tijuana, or someone in Detroit "roaming" on a Canadian tower located within sight across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario.

Moody Gardens

Moody Gardens features three main pyramid attractions: the Aquarium Pyramid, which is one of the largest in the region and holds many species of fish and other marine animals; the Rainforest Pyramid, which contains tropical plants, animals, birds, butterflies, reptiles, and a variety of other rainforest animals including free-roaming monkeys and two-toed sloths; and the Discovery Pyramid, which focuses on science-oriented exhibits and activities.

Onyanko Town

Unlike the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series of video games (especially the first NES release which would come out four years later in 1989), open manholes kill the player instead of helping her evade the roaming dogs.

Shadows in Zamboula

The story takes place over a night in Zamboula, with political intrigue amidst streets filled with roaming cannibals.

Sokoke

The distinctive, free-roaming feral cats of the Kenya coastal area – found from city streets to the Arabuko Sokoke forest – were "discovered", in the Western cat fancy sense, by horse breeder and wildlife artist Jeni Slater in 1978.

Tbaytel

Tbaytel has domestic roaming agreements with providers Rogers, MTS Allstream, TELUS (CDMA only), Bell (CDMA only), Bell Aliant (CDMA only) and SaskTel (CDMA only).

Telecom dispute between Gibraltar and Spain

These included a refusal to recognise Gibraltar's International Direct Dialling (IDD) code (+350) which restricted the expansion of the Gibraltar telephone numbering plan, and the prevention of roaming arrangements for Gibraltar GSM mobile phones in Spain and vice versa.

Gibraltar's only GSM operator, Gibtelecom, was prevented from establishing roaming agreements with Spanish operators.

Terri Farley

She claimed they were violating the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, which states, briefly: to require the protection, management, and control of wild free-roaming horses and burros on public land.

The Ass in the Lion's Skin

About then there was also a false report that the animals had escaped from Central Park Zoo and were roaming the city.

The Houndcats

The show bears some similarity and may have been inspired by the Western-action-adventure TV series Bearcats, which featured Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole as mercenaries roaming the turn of the century Old West in their Stutz Bearcat in search of fortune and adventure.

The Sea, the Sea

According to Xenophon's Anabasis, "The Sea! The Sea!" (Thalatta! Thalatta!) was the shout of triumphant exultation given by the roaming 10,000 Greeks when, in 401BC, they caught sight of the Black Sea from Mount Theches in Trebizond and realised they were saved from near-certain death.

Wingham Wildlife Park

This area is home to a variety of tropical plants, 3 ponds containing Goldfish and Koi, a butterfly house, Silvery-cheeked Hornbill enclosure and a variety of free roaming animals including; Common Marmosets, Chattering Lory, Black-winged Lory, White-cheeked Turaco, Diamond Dove and many more.

Wolf reintroduction

The wolves were reintroduced to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the early 90s but the program was cancelled in 1998 due to the death of wolf pups from malnutrition and disease; and the wolves roaming beyond the boundaries of the park.


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