Instead of mobile phones, they should just switch over to IP via Avian Carrier.
That's a problem when your research subject eats the carriers for breakfast ;-)
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Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges
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Re: Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges
#12I d never guess they were so cosmopolitan
Even people researching them for a living made a mistake this time.
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#13A solution could be to design the system to make calls directly to a list of ornitologists or ornitologist societies in the other countries, that shouldn't be really complicated to arrange and then ask them to return the data by standard e-mail. Is a small world. Or store the eagles travel data in a cloud, that feels also poetically appropriate for this case
I think roaming charges apply even when you are calling a number in the same county.
Really this is already a good solution, it just needs the right tariff.
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#14Looking at the map, I wonder how light pollution affects their migration routes.
Re: Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges
#15A solution could be to design the system to make calls directly to a list of ornitologists or ornitologist societies in the other countries, that shouldn't be really complicated to arrange and then ask them to return the data by standard e-mail. Is a small world. Or store the eagles travel data in a cloud, that feels also poetically appropriate for this case
I think roaming charges apply even when you are calling a number in the same county. Really this is already a good solution, it just needs the right tariff.
It says data roaming not calls. There are specialized tariffs for trackers no idea why they didn't use one.
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#17Reminds me of a Polish group doing a Stork study which racked up £2,010 in charges when someone found the sim and used it to make voice calls.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/03/stork_mobile_theft/
Re: Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges
#18A solution could be to design the system to make calls directly to a list of ornitologists or ornitologist societies in the other countries, that shouldn't be really complicated to arrange and then ask them to return the data by standard e-mail. Is a small world. Or store the eagles travel data in a cloud, that feels also poetically appropriate for this case
I'm sure it's somewhat hard to change the system once deployed. They could just get a cheap global tariff -- but the eagles won't swap SIM cards themselves.
Really should of planned for.. over-the-air updates.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think roaming charges apply even when you are calling a number in the same county. Really this is already a good solution, it just needs the right tariff.
It says data roaming not calls. There are specialized tariffs for trackers no idea why they didn't use one.
You sure you know what options the local carries does provide?
Re: Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges
#20Come on operators, waive the bill for science!