We're all connected (Yeah right)!

that can do everything except make the tea (or perhaps they can do that now - who knows)?

But whilst I think all this development is fine - and I must say my phone runs my life so I'm certainly no luddite - everyone seems to overlook the most important part of the whole equation - the infrastructure!

Yes folks, what's the point of having a train timetable app on your phone if you can't get on the internet? How do you read the news when there's no connection or poor download speeds? Why have a Facebook app when you can hardly get on the damn thing let alone upload a photo?

I travel around the UK quite a bit in my job and it astounds - nay infuriates - me how hit and miss it can be just to get an internet connection. In the middle of Birmingham I get speeds that rival the Eurofighter Typhoon at full throttle, yet sitting here in my office I sometimes can't even send a text!

I know there's different companies involved but what's the point of making mobile phones so unbelievably powerful that they could control the Mars Rover from Earth, when the important bit in the middle - the Internet - is often about as quick as a tranquilised slug with a gammy leg! Get the infrastructure right first and then focus on the technology. Don't run before you can walk.

A couple of years ago I visited the Doosan factory in South Korea with Mills CNC. On the last night in Seoul I realised just how far we are behind the rest of the world from a communications perspective. Wherever I was in the city, rapid connectivity was never far away. I really am easily pleased these days.

With 4G starting to roll out via EE, let's hope things improve soon. Leaning out of hotel windows on one leg with my phone held at a precise 37.5 degree angle just so I can connect to the Web is really getting a bit irksome!