On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Adnan Hodzic <ad...@foolcontrol.org> wrote:
> It's hard to believe such chaos rose from Mtel's good intentions. > > Mtel is *only* going to give you a SIM card and what you get with it > is phone number and XX minutes so you can talk to other people without > them charging you and XX mb of data transfer (3g). You're not gonna > get the actual handsets. They'll give it to us, it's up to you if you > want to take it or not. > > You won't give any personal information once you get the SIM card, > there are no obligations, it's just for you to be able to talk to each > other via phone while you're here, that's it. Once you used all the > data and calling minutes, you're out you can throw the SIM away. No > contracts no nothing. > > They got onto this idea after "DebConf11 trailer" that is after > Moray's and Holger's visit after discussion was started where you > could get a phone number and some calling minutes. This discussion got > to their CEO and in the end they decided they could give you away > these phone numbers for free. This was their nice gesture, and if they > heard about this whole topic and what was discussed in it they would > prolly pull back the offer. > > I don't know if you can understand it or not, but no one is trying to > impose something on you, no one is trying to sell anything you don't > wanna buy, in plain English no one is trying to screw you over. > Government, sponsors, local team and I are giving our best to provide > you with experience you won't forget, but it seems to me the more good > things we do you only take the wrong way. > > Get it into your head, we're not some banana country, we're on our way > to make it into EU. One of the goals of DebConf11 is to break these > stereotypes and whatever else it is. Moray and Holger were here, > please ask them I'm sure they got here with certain level of > prejudice, but ask them with what opinion and thought did they leave? > > I appreciate the efforts of the local team and IMHO it's very nice to have such an offer from mtel. I also understand that you're under a lot of pressure with DebConf just around the corner and you guys don't really need the extra noise/rants on the list. But being a citizen of a banana republic I find your comments... well... how do I put it? Kind of racist and a bit ironic if your goal is to eliminate prejudices and stereotypes. > In meantime do the reality check and just ... chillax. You have no > idea how hard it's to work with unneeded situations like this one. If > in doubt about something, talk to somebody else before just going > mental on the mailing list. > > > Adnan > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Dejan Marjanovic > <dejan.marjano...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think they will hand out so called FREND packages, they cost about > > 25euro here in retail. > > It is basically prepaid SIM with 2.5e credits, phone (Samsung or > > Alcatel or Huawei), charger, and instructions. > > Adnan, if you can, do ask for Alcatel because they are much more > > advanced than Samsung. They have SD card slot and camera, therefore I > > think they can be connected to laptop and act as a modem. > > You can use SIM card in any phone you want, but you cannot use other > > network SIM in the mobile phone you get (I can unlock them btw :]). > > > > Here's a pic: http://k.min.us/idm976.jpg > > > > -- > > Dejan Marjanović > > Webarto • web design + development > > http://webarto.com • i...@webarto.com > > +387 61 05 85 05 • +387 66 05 33 32 > > _______________________________________________ > > Debconf11-localteam mailing list > > debconf11-localt...@lists.debconf.org > > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf11-localteam > > > _______________________________________________ > Debconf11-localteam mailing list > debconf11-localt...@lists.debconf.org > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf11-localteam >
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