GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN ON MOBILE 'NOTSPOTS' (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Wednesday, November 05, 2014, 00:45

A fifth of the UK suffers from poor coverage, according to the government

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 to rival networks when they lose signal.

But experts are not convinced this would work.

Culture Secretary Sajid Javid said he was determined to sort out the issue of mobile notspots.

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