Mobile Phone Reception
The Western Mail today highlights the problems of mobile reception in some parts of Wales. They are not wrong; as somebody with a vast rural constituency I can attest to this. On many roads I can warn interlocutors that I will lose them in 27 seconds or 2 minutes or whatever the case may be(hands free phone by the way )
Reception can be patchy, when I speak to William Graham on his mobile phone he reminds me that his mobile does not work in ALL parts of his house ( smooth line William!– up there with a colleague who began a chapter in his legal textbook ‘ In Trinidad where this chapter is being written….. ‘ !!)
This is a concern, the poor reception in parts of Wales that is, not the variations in parts of William’s house, but surely we should be much more concerned about the patchy nature of the availability of some drugs on the NHS in different parts of Wales or of wild variations in educational achievement than the patchy nature of mobile reception.
The poor mobile reception was certainly one ground on which I contested ( largely successfully) the withdrawal of many BT phone boxes in rural Wales when BT was proposing cut backs in provision. Another very valid ground was the ‘Childline’ argument that complaints by victims of child abuse tend to be made from land lines.
