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Have fun not being able to update iOS (even if the iOS update is only 20mb), or downloading or updating the Facebook iOS app since it's bigger than 100mb! :)

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Also, have fun trying to use your "high-speed"data connection in buildings with terrible reception. Disclaimer: I've worked in many of these

We recently purchased a house 9km from Edinburgh with no mobile signal - fortunately the Vodafone signal booster device we got (which relies on broadband) appears to work really well.

What we hadn't noticed is that you get a decent signal in the garden but not in the house. Probably as we are right next to a small hill of solid volcanic rock that is between our house and the nearest mast.

> signal booster

I think the correct term is femtocell

One of these things:

https://www.vodafone.co.uk/shop/accessories/sure-signal/

One of these things : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell

Not a signal booster.

Yes, I know how it works and that its not literally boosting the existing signal but that's what the chap in the Vodafone shop called it and it does rather make things easier to explain to people who aren't bothered by technical trivia.

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This is a pain at the moment. Because I move around a lot I tend to use my iPhone hotspot rather than bothering with an ISP contract. It's fine except that I have to go to Starbucks to update my phone. I imagine that will change if it becomes more common to use mobile data for everything.

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