It was meant to be a key part of a new age of mobile telecommunications, giving consumers the same benefits that they could get from their computers at home, but yesterday mobile phone operators were told that Britain’s failure to embrace the internet via mobile phones was their fault.

The industry’s lack of transparency over the cost of accessing the web on handsets was, the Mobile Data Association said, restricting the growth of mobile internet.

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