Oral Answers to Questions

Desmond Swayne Excerpts

Thursday 8th February 2018 Commons Chamber

[Margot James]

Northern Ireland’s outdoor geographic coverage is better than the UK average, but I recognise that indoor coverage is poor compared with the rest of the country. The new code reforms will help, alongside our desire to extend geographic mobile coverage to 95% of the entire United Kingdom.

[Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) (Con)]

Are 10 megabits enough?

[Margot James]

My right hon. Friend refers to the universal service obligation that will guarantee 10 megabits per second. According to Ofcom, that is enough for multiple usage in the home, and for downloading film and video.