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iPhones Don't Travel

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I Don't Believe it! Thu May 20th    Setting aside Covid, there can be no doubt we are living in a more global, homogenized market place.  Standards are converging, the same brands are found in high streets around the world.   As my old iPhone 8 was not working properly before we left the UK and repair looked expensive, I switched to a new iPhone 12.  The most modern of the Apple phone fleet. We switched to local SIMs a few weeks in.  Fred's old iPhone 8 works fine with the local number.  Our older iPhone 6's with our UK SIMs work fine.  Not so the latest iPhone 12 technology.  Calls in cannot connect reliably, get dropped and outgoing also just won't ring 50% of the time. Time to chat (online) to those lovely people at Apple.   " Well, what happens mike is that you bough (sic) a model that works only at the location that you bought it, that's why it is not working as it should right now, I'm going to share with you a link...