A NEW generation of 4G phones just launched will be super speedy – downloading a web page in a fraction of a second. Wonderful. Except, of course, for those of us just a mile from the A1 and yet with no mobile phone coverage at all.

Instead of putting all that wizardry and effort into saving a few privileged people precious extra seconds, how about letting the rest of us at least catch up with the step before the step before last?