After noticing on a recent trip to the UK that my phone wouldn't work there I went into the Vodafone shop in Fethiye last week to say I was making a trip abroad and needed to have the phone working. The inevitable answer was "your phone will work" it didn't last time I replied! "But since then you have changed to new internet package, so your phone will work"
So off I went, made the trip, got off the plane and guess what !
Hopeless doesn't come close !!