Mobile Phones: Rural Areas
(asked on 27th April 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
What progress his Department has made on delivering the Shared Rural Network.
This question was answered on 27th April 2020
The Government announced on 9 March that it had agreed a £1 billion deal with the mobile network operators to deliver the Shared Rural Network. This will see operators collectively increase mobile phone coverage throughout the UK to 95% by end-2025, underpinned by legally binding coverage commitments. The site deployment plans will be managed by the operators themselves to best deliver the agreed coverage outcomes by the licence obligation enforcement date.