Coverage for phones not good
Saturday 26th January 2008, 10:50AM GMT.
Never has the need for improved mobile coverage in Wales been better illustrated than this week in Montgomeryshire where dozens, possibly hundreds, of phone landlines have been out of order since last Thursday after lightning strikes hit the north of the county.
Many people still waiting to be re-connected are the most vulnerable and isolated and some have lost their 24-hour alarm link with social services in Llandrindod.
There are plenty of places both on the hills and in the valleys of Montgomeryshire where mobile phone reception is weak or non-existent, the same locations which are at risk from the increasingly frequent storms which produce high winds on the hills and flooding in the valleys.
David Thomas, Montgomeryshire
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You can’t have mobile phone signals without mobile phone transmitters,you try and get a new one sited at a place near you and every man and their dog will be objecting to it.
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Aren’t there any phoneboxes about? people managed before mobiles.
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