By John McCarthy

A government proposal which would have given smartphone users the ability to piggyback other mobile networks in areas of low coverage was rejected by telecoms groups earlier this week.

The ‘National Roaming’ scheme was proposed by UK culture secretary Sajid Javid in a bid to improve mobile networks before the 2015 UK general election, but it has been widely rejected by network providers.

The doomed initiative would have allowed consumers to access any UK network to make voice calls in areas where their personal mobile carrier’s coverage failed – vastly increasing the nation’s rural service.

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Source: The Drum