Notspots and Communities pulling together
Are you living in a not spot ...is enough being done to improve mobile phone services in rural Wales ? The community getting together with a cup of tea and a prickly visitor in the garden - how many hedgehogs are there in Carmarthenshire?
Last updated: 12 June 2011
Country Focus - Sunday 12th June at 0700; presented by Rachael Garside and repeated Monday 13th June at 0530
Are you living in a notspot? According to research commissioned by Ebay poor mobile phone networks are depriving the Welsh economy of £706m because consumers spend less via their phones. And as anyone who has visited, or lives in rural Wales knows, getting a signal can sometimes be more than problematic - sometimes simply impossible. We talk to the people of Llandrindod Wells identified as one of the top ten not spots for mobile shopping. We also speak to Duncan Taylor Chair of the Ger-y-Gors Community Forum where villages surrounding Pontrhydfendigaid in Ceredigion were so fed up with the lack of a mobile signal they've decided to erect their own masts. And we ask Ofcom Wales what can be done to improve the situation.
If you can't communicate by mobile phone .....there's nothing like a brew to bring people together and in one Pembrokeshire village the whole community has joined forces to open a new café. The venture run by residents of Castlemartin will be staffed entirely by volunteers and will only be serving locally sourced and fair traded food and drink
It's Open Farm Sunday and our community reporter is out Dry Stone Walling and Rachael has a prickly visitor to her garden.
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