Mr Bafilemba points to parts of a laptop, a mobile phone and a wi-fi router spread out on a table in front of him.

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Mobile phone customers have complained about service not being resumed in parts of Southampton after a peregrine falcon nested by a faulty transmitter.

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The irony is that, while the world's telecoms firms spend a fortune building third-generation mobile-phone networks, even though they are not sure that anybody wants them, in many parts of the world they seem unable or unwilling to provide broadband connections at reasonable prices, even though customers want them.

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