A handful of English tourists was recently waiting for a ferry service to the Scottish island Handa, when a typical 21st century smalltalk topic emerged.
The tourists compared their phones and whether they had a mobile connection.
"I have three bars," said one of them, referring to the signal strength indicator.
Another said he had suddenly received a flood of emails – after not having been connected to the internet for a while.
Some of Scotland's remote regions in the...
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