A BBC crowd-sourcing survey to map the UK’s mobile phone networks has revealed the parts of Britain where phones can access the fastest and slowest data speeds. Users of more than 44,000 phones downloaded an app to measure mobile phone signals over a month. The software helped build an interactive map that lets people check [...]
Surrey Police today launches a trailblazing mobile phone application enabling users to engage with their local neighbourhood teams. The interactive smartphone app Surrey Police Beat allows people to see where their Safer Neighbourhood officers are and what they are working on as well as giving them the opportunity to vote on their policing priorities. Among [...]
The new system means quick and easy recording of feedback with no disruption to patients and huge time and cost savings for staff Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is improving patient care by speeding up the process of patient feedback after implementing a new Digital Pen and Paper solution from technology innovator Anoto [...]
New Ofcom research reveals the extent to which the UK has become addicted to smartphones, with people confessing to using them everywhere from the dining table to the bathroom and bedroom. Over a quarter of adults (27 per cent) and almost half of teenagers (47 per cent) now own a smartphone, according to Ofcoms latest [...]
Phone users with hearing and/or speech impairments stand to benefit from new measures being proposed today by Ofcom. By law, communications providers must provide ‘text relay’ services for disabled consumers. This involves a relay assistant converting typed messages into speech and then back again, allowing consumers with hearing and/or speech impairments to communicate on the [...]
“Bill shock” from roaming with your mobile phone within the EU could come to an end with measures to make the market more competitive. New rules proposed for Europe’s mobile telephone operators aim to dramatically lower roaming costs. They would help achieve the 2015 target set by the EU’s digital agenda for a seamless communications [...]
The Communications Consumer Panel is calling on Ofcom to use the spectrum auction as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to extend mobile coverage in the UK. Poor or non-existent coverage is creating significant problems for small businesses, as well as the three million people living in not-spots, the people passing through them and passengers on the rail [...]
The CBI today called on the Government to harness the potential of information technology to transform public services. In a new report System Reset: Transforming public services through IT, the UK’s leading business group says that making better use of technology could make accessing public services easier for the public and businesses, while saving taxpayers’ [...]
by Andrea Di Maio | July 7, 2011 When I was in Taipei last week I saw a few camera crews in public places, including the city hall. When I asked what it was, I was told that it was the launch date for free municipal wi-fi in public spaces (indoor). In a few months’ [...]
Ensuring access for all to next generation high-speed broadband by 2020 is a key priority for rural Scotland, Richard Lochhead said today. Today’s parliamentary debate on Rural Connectivity highlighted the need for rural Scotland to be included in the digital revolution for high-speed broadband and 4G mobile coverage. Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead said: “We [...]
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