Quote Originally Posted by neloon View Post
Only favoured areas of Aberdeen had TV at Coronation time (1953) - the third city of Scotland and now the oil capital of Europe. Highland hills tend to get in the way of mobile phone signals to this day!
Alan
Not only the Highlands, I'd guess that 60 years ago not too many families had a tele. I remember that 25 years ago we only had one small tv and one PersonalComputer. It's not even 10 years since HD-TVs with 36"+ diagonals became affordable.
I'd guess that the point of no mobile phone signals has a lot to do with the theme of the above mentioned TV-production. There are not enough people to pay for what it costs to build the network and antenna. It's not only the hills that are in the way when you don't get signal in Portree.