Depending on the contract you have, certain costs for accessing the internet on your phone - usually referred to as data charges - may apply.

BBC: News on your mobile

Of course there are downsides to living in the countryside - with seclusion and space come inevitably higher transport costs, poor mobile phone coverage and slower internet speeds - but the stats defy any notion that the English rural scene is threatened.

BBC: Urban v rural: Which is better?

The more Americans abandon it to go mobile-only or make phone calls over the internet, the more fragile it becomes: its high fixed costs have to be spread over ever fewer subscribers.

ECONOMIST: The decline of the landline