"Snapper" <snapper1@y7mail.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:dnjg841ju8db71nuipcpq2sg4rrg06c38q@yarwho.com ...
> My wife just called me from New York. She has spent the past 35hrs in
> transit,
> flights delayed or diverted because of storms and ATC issues. She was
> supposed
> to arrive at her destination 12hrs ago.
>
> Aside from the travelling issues what made it hardest was that her newly
> purchased N95i from Optus was supposed to have international roaming
> turned on.
> But it wasn't. She was unable to call the people that were meeting her at
> JFK to
> advise her of the delays. At one point they were stuck on the runway in
> SFO for
> an hour or two. Her phone wasn't working.
>
> In one airport, Newark, New Jersey it might've been, the damned thing
> wouldn't
> even connect to a free wifi hotspot. Sorry, it could connect but she could
> not
> browse. She was trying to send me an email so I could call Optus, put a
> rocket
> up their collective arses so they would turn roaming on. She then would've
> been
> able to call up to advise that she was late (which by then these people
> realised
> that anyway).
>
> According to the website it's automatically activated. But in this case
> this was

No its not