Yes ,but do they own any satellites .. as Warwick says they are buying or renting bandwidth from the owners of the satellites ? It seems there are as many many layers of companies in satellite broadband as there are in earth based broadband and telecommunication ,each of them subcontracting of each ...
Yes I think it is worth getting a residence permit. The first one I got 12 years ago was very simple, at the police station it took about half an hour if you you don't count the time it took walking back into town to photo copy the form because they only had one and the photocopy machine in the poli...
Yes Peter it there are many links in the food chain from the user to the company that owns the satellite ...we for about 4 months had a link in Spain who went bankrupt ....our service went down at the end of the month and I would phone him and complain and magically it would come back twenty minutes...
Oh ..I use Tooway via freedomsat Europe and we don't seem to have had any problems ..we use a company called Bentley Walker . in the UK ..However now you can get Tooway in Greece from higher up the food chain these days from http://www.tooway.gr/ this did not exist 12years ago ...worth looking at ..
I have done similar trips to Manchester to work on a panto in the old days Oh no! You didn't? That's really intrigued me, Jeff, learning what's behind you. I had you down as having been a horny-handed son of the soil long before you came to Crete... Ha Ha Clio..In a previous life amongst other thin...
Yeah I have done similar trips to Manchester to work on a panto in the old days ..I would take the metro in to Athens for a trip around the Museum or Lunch with some Athenian mates ....not a bad way to start a trip to the UK ....
Thanks for that BST...the international driving permit is not a massive hassle to get ,it seems you need a passport photo, passport, driving licence it can be issued on the spot at the ELPA office, and there is a fee but the web site wont tell me what it is ....
Old thread revival... We are planing a short trip back to the UK in October ...booked a hire car for the trip from Sixt at Gatport Airwick ....reading the small print the very small print it seems I cant hire a car with my New Greek Licence 'cos it's not in Roman script ...The licence office in Siti...
I spent a bit of my life in the UK designing building and sometimes trouble shooting folks swimming pools . I think with the water shortages here on Crete the decision how to overwinter the pool must be made with water conservation in mind ...I was reading this headline this morning ... http://www.c...
Only advice I can offer, crash around on all the web sites and book it as early as you can...as Warwick says it's a busy time so seat availability is scarce.