Monday, August 15, 2011

Saluting Vodafone and Turkkcell

Actually, this should be called "saluting Vodafone, saluting Turkcell, saluting Vodafone, saluting Turkcell, saluting Vodafone, saluting Turkcell", one finger salute that is!

Two businesses must make up 50% of the Turkish GDP. Restaurants and cell phone shops. Pick any store and there is a 50% chance that it is either a restaurant or a cell phone shop, sometime several of them together, as in Vodafone store, Turkcell store, Vodafone store, Turkcell store, Vodafone store, you get the picture. This is true in both big cities and small towns. Now Nancy was apparently sold the wrong charge/SIM card at the border, the phone was locked to Vodafone and the new SIM Turkcell, a common GSM problem. There was a small delay in identifying this real issue due to a certain blond moment involving putting the SIM backwards, but eventually the real problem surfaced. After that much hell was raised at a few cell phone store followed by one finger salute to many stores during the ride including this episode of 6 salutes in a row.

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