ttj - Tom Jones

Yesterday, for the first time since around 2002, I had to dial 999, the UK emergency number.  My life was in danger due to idiots deliberately launching rocks down a mountain-side. In the end I made around five calls to 999, with Dyfed-Powys police ultimately failing to turn up. I then received an SMS from Sure, the Guernsey mobile network, saying I'd used 25 GBP of my 50 GBP roaming allowance.  So, are they charging 999 emergency calls at full rates?  When the limit is reached, does the customer then lose the capability to engage in futile attempts to summon Dyfed-Powys police? (The calls variously went to South Wales, Gwent, and Dyfed-Powys constabularies, but I think I was in Dyfed-Powys, and no one bothered showing up).

Sure and JT are the incumbent telecoms companies around here.  Sure is the local one and runs the physical infrastructure.  JT is from Jersey, has a bit of their own fibre in business areas, but generally run their services over Sure's infrastructure.  (There's also vodafone, who quoted me 50 GBP(2023) / month extra for a static ip address, and misled me with a leaflet about mobile topup bundles, but I'm not sure they count.  For those reading from the future, 50 GBP / month is more like the total charge for a half-decent internet connection, and the going rate for a static ip address surcharge might be more like 5 GBP / month). A neighbour alerted me to a surprise toilet appearing on my property, pictured above. I don't know if this is just from living in Switzerland, but to me the notion of putting up a portaloo on someone's private property without permission is nuts.  It's also surprising because my rate for this is 10,000 GBP(2023) per day or part day (plus...