There are places in this country where you cannot get good mobile phone reception. In the UK, a much larger country and with many more remote locations, the problems for rural communities are far worse.

Major phone companies are rolling out 5G – despite the ridiculous accusation that 5G causes corona – so that major cities and towns will have the best of the best.

Yet today there was a remarkable story in the press that Nokia – you remember, the company that terrorised us for years with their diddle-um-dum diddle-um-dum diddle-um-dum dum ringtone – want to be the first to put a GSM mast on the moon of all places!

With all the investment needed to carry out such a stunt, which would only really be useful to customers of Tesla and Virgin, they are only going to make 4G possible there. I would have expected 6G at least!!

So my travel tip is: if you are planning a trip to the moon, don’t count on being able to live-stream films in HD; take them with you instead.