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…
Small and medium-sized business owners are receiving a worse service from mobile operators than their landline counterparts, despite increasing reliance on mobile to run their organisations. An in-depth survey by RootMetrics, the standard for independent mobile performance information, covered over 1,000 businesses and found nearly half of business owners (46%) are losing multiple important business…
Mobile phone operators could be made to share their networks in rural areas of the UK where signals are weak under plans being considered by ministers. Some parts of rural Britain have just one or two of the main mobile phone networks available, or none at all, leaving some people without any signal. It is…
It will be the manufacturer’s first smartwatch in collaboration with Google and its third wearable technology product LG will launch its G Watch smartwatch in Q2, although sale of it in the UK as not been confirmed. The manufacturer has yet to reveal hardware specifications but said it will be powered by Android Wear and…
Researchers claim to have revealed weak spot in WiFi networks. WiFi networks can be infected by a virus that can spread through populated areas like the common cold, according to researchers at the University of Liverpool. Members of the School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Electronics designed a virus that could spread quickly…
Twenty years ago (give or take a few weeks) Nokia announced a new mobile phone that was to cement its early leadership in the mobile phone market The Nokia 2110 went one to become not just one of the best selling top-end handsets of its time, but also defined how a mobile phone should look…
