Launched by Cambridge Ahead, the #CambsNotspotter initiative aims to take the information on where mobile phone signals, Wi-Fi and broadband access are poor and encourage telecoms providers to take action to improve them. The plan is to provide the city and its surrounding areas with the connectivity infrastructure it needs to become a “hyper-connected” city of the future.
“We are going to improve mobile broadband connectivity across the region,” said Faye Holland, Chair of the Connecting Cambridge group within Cambridge Ahead, at the #CambsNotspotter launch in Cambridge.
By becoming a #CambsNotspotter, local people will help identify areas of no or low connectivity, or ‘notspots’, using a specially designed app which collects and analyses mobile data signals. The data will then be used to create heat maps to show how mobile data signals vary across the region.
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