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October 26, 2019 01:26 am

Migrating eagles racked up a huge cellular bill




Image: Russian Raptors Research and Conservation Network, via VK.com crowdfunding campaign

Migrating eagles with tracking beacons that send texts reportedly accrued roaming charges so high that scientists had to take out a loan to pay for them, as well as attempt to raise money from a crowdfunding campaign — because some of the birds made unexpected detours (via BBC).


One eagle, Min, was apparently so far off course that its transmitter sent enough texts to eat up the entire tracking budget, according to the BBC. Min was expected to fly to Kazakhstan, where it would have sent a bunch of coordinates over SMS that it collected while out of range of a network. Those texts would have cost of approximately 30 cents each. However, Min apparently flew straight to Iran and the texts were sent from there, where they cost approximately...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20933022/migrating-eagles-scientific-research-major-data-roaming-charges-sms-russia-iran-kazakhstan

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