On Monday evening I flew over to Guernsey for several days of on site consultancy with a customer. As per usual I was accompanied by my trusty iPhone 3GS to service my communications needs. Not wishing to incur the prohibitively-expensive costs associated with data roaming, I always have "Data Roaming" set to Off. As a matter of course I also disabled the automatic fetching of new data (Mail, Contacts, Calendars etc).
Upon arrival I powered the phone up, and after the customary wait, bega...