Mobile 3G Connectivity Map
Today the UK mobile industry watchdog Ofcom published a map of mobile phone three G. connectivity across the UK. The map highlights that large parts of the UK cannot access the Internet via a mobile networks.
There has been a greater reliance on mobile phone technology by people all across the UK, with the increased use of three G. services when connecting to the web where they are using an old mobile phone or by using a USB modem with their computer.
The map highlights that the problem is especially banned in a rural areas, large parts of Scotland, the majority of Wales, Northern Ireland, the South West of England, northern England and a large part of East Anglia. Having had this, you may well be wondering exactly where the mobile phone signal is in the UK.
Ofcom also released a document called mostly Mobile which looked at how people are using their mobile communications, and found that consumers are increasingly foregoing landline telecommunications and using their mobile phones instead. This has led Ofcom to suggest plans on how to push for improved three G. mobile phone network coverage.
It was noted that there is any big difference in three G. network coverage between rural and urban areas in the UK. In addition there are a large number of coverage problems in the devolved nations in the UK including Scotland and Wales.
Following this assessment Ofcom have realised that mobile services are now key and the central for many UK citizens, consumers and for businesses. This is the real driver behind their push to increase three G. mobile phone network coverage across the whole of the UK.
It is believed that a range of issues are to blame for the variations in mobile telephone coverage including things like the technology, the cost of rolling out the services, restrictions were planning as well as more natural issues such as the topography of the various parts of the British Isles which include hills and a number of mountains.
