"R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclayton@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:QZKdnaECwZ2j2L3VnZ2dnUVZ8v2vnZ2d@bt.com...
> In France by contrast handsets still cost ~£2k, coverage was both
> fragmented and patchy and charges were high.

Handsets aren't still that expensive in the France I've visited in the last
few years...

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