On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 22:08, Carol Weaver

<corconx@...> wrote:

I have a gps but it doesn’t get me internet. It does use satellite positioning which is great. I also have a satellite dish which I use for tv. All those folk who said it was better to stream from laptop will now have problems 

I thought I was missing something 

Carol

On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 21:34, pj_home via groups.io <paul.f.jackson=virgin.net@groups.io> wrote:

Good ol GPS receivers dont use data from the internet Carol they are
phone/data free whereas google maps needs the internet connection to
work "live"

On 09/05/2022 20:28, Carol Weaver wrote:
> How does that help?
>
> On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 18:41, pj_home via groups.io <http://groups.io>
> <paul.f.jackson=virgin.net@groups.io <mailto:virgin.net@groups.io>> wrote:
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>     Still got my good ol GPS unit for that very reason!
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>     On 09/05/2022 17:38, Alan Morris wrote:
>      > On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:08, David Scholes via groups.io
>     <http://groups.io>
>      > <scholesd=icloud.com@groups.io <mailto:icloud.com@groups.io>> wrote:
>      >
>      >> In other words, it costs £2 per day in addition to it comes out
>     of your own data allowance and it is charged automatically as soon
>     as you use any data like when you try to navigate to the local
>     supermarket on google maps
>      >
>      > Maybe an increase in sales of good ol' GPS receivers!
>      >
>      > Alan
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>     Paul
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