Apple WiFi Assist, help or hinderance?

Apple WiFi Assist help or hindrance? WiFi assist is a new Apple feature launched on the iOS9 software release; the feature automatically switches you from slow or poor performing WiFi connections in favour of mobile 3G or 4G data. Sound good? Apple thinks the feature is a winner, so WiFi Assist has been turned on…

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Britons Check Smartphones 1.1bn times a day!

Britain’s mobile phone owners look at their devices nearly 1.1 billion times a day, the equivalent of 400 billion times a year, according to the latest research from Deloitte, the business advisory firm. The fifth annual Mobile Consumer report analyses the mobile usage habits of over 4,000 UK consumers as part of a global survey…

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Government crackdown on mobile ‘notspots’

The government plans to oblige mobile operators to improve their coverage, possibly by sharing rivals’ networks. Partial ‘notspots’, where there is coverage from some but not all of the mobile networks, affected a fifth of the UK, leaving people unable to make calls or send texts, it said. One possible solution would see people transferred…

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