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Britain has long been a pioneer in telecoms: we built the first commercial telegraph in 1837; made the first transatlantic phone call 90 years later; and sent the first text message to a mobile phone in 1992. But today the industry “lags rather than leads”, says The Economist. According to new research, Britain ranks 46th for mobile network download speeds out of the 56 developed and developing countries for which data exists – “the worst mobile service in the rich world”.
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