{"id":16097,"date":"2018-05-13T18:58:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T17:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=16097"},"modified":"2018-05-14T08:41:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T07:41:05","slug":"over-50-cross-party-uk-mps-call-for-better-rural-mobile-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/05\/over-50-cross-party-uk-mps-call-for-better-rural-mobile-coverage.html","title":{"rendered":"Over 50 Cross Party UK MPs Call for Better Rural 4G Mobile Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 50 MPs have signed a letter by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Rural Services that calls on the government&#8217;s digital secretary, Matt Hancock, to ensure that 95% of the UK&#8217;s landmass can access a mobile service from all operators (<a class=\"shortlink shortlink-80\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"three uk\">Three UK<\/a>, <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"vodafone\">Vodafone<\/a>, <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-43\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"ee home broadband\">EE<\/a> and <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-68\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"o2\">O2<\/a>) by the end of 2022.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At present <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-43\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"ee home broadband\">EE<\/a> (<a class=\"shortlink shortlink-145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"BT\">BT<\/a>) already claims to have reached a geographic coverage level with their <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-116 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"4g\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_mobile.php\">4G<\/a> network of 90% and they aim to cover 95% by the end of December 2020. Unfortunately <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-133 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"ofcom\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\">Ofcom<\/a> recently reported that this figure drops to just 57% when looking at coverage delivered in the same areas by all four mobile operators (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/04\/ofcoms-spring-2018-uk-mobile-and-fixed-broadband-coverage-stats.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The letter asks Hancock to ensure that a legally binding coverage obligation is placed on all four major operators and to rethink <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-133 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"ofcom\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s statutory obligations in order clarify that its main purpose must be to work towards the delivery of universal quality mobile coverage.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that the MPs also want a significant change in the rules on transparency in order to prevent mobile operators from hiding behind &#8220;<em>commercial confidentiality<\/em>&#8221; and refusing to tell communities about their deployment plans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Julian Sturdy MP, Chair of the APPG, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ofcom&#8217;s Connected Nations report in December 2017 revealed that while people inside 90% of UK premises can make telephone calls on all four mobile networks, this falls to 57% in rural areas. This is just not good enough and progress in connecting the countryside has been painfully slow.<\/p>\n<p>We are asking the Secretary of State to step in and work with Ofcom to ensure that the mobile operators speed up delivery of <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-116 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"4g\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_mobile.php\">4G<\/a> to rural areas.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Mark Bridgeman, CLA Deputy President, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People living and working in the countryside are fed up with rubbish signal and empty promises from the mobile network providers. Ofcom must take a stronger line.<\/p>\n<p>They can do this by requiring legally binding targets that will deliver on the government\u2019s stated ambition of 95% geographic coverage by the end of 2022, and robustly challenge the industry\u2019s constant excuses for not investing in rural areas.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However it&#8217;s worth pointing out that the 95% target is already part of the current government&#8217;s manifesto (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/05\/2017-conservative-party-manifesto-short-surprises-broadband.html\">here<\/a>) and Ofcom plans to attach a stricter coverage obligation when they come to auction off the highly prized <strong>700MHz<\/strong> band in late 2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/03\/ofcom-consult-rural-uk-5g-mobile-coverage-obligation-700mhz.html\">details<\/a>). The lower frequency is ideal for covering a wide area, as well as reaching further indoors, and would be a good complement for the existing <strong>800MHz<\/strong> and <strong>900MHz<\/strong> bands in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly part of the reason why EE is so far ahead is due to all the new masts and other infrastructure that is being built as part of their \u00a31.2bn <strong>Emergency Services Network<\/strong> (ESN), which should connect 300,000 UK emergency services personnel with 4G voices and data services across Britain. The good news is that <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"vodafone\">Vodafone<\/a>, <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-80\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"three uk\">Three UK<\/a> and <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-68\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"o2\">O2<\/a> will also be able to make use of masts built via the ESN to help boost their own coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say that there&#8217;s already a very strong likelihood that the 95% target will be, although that&#8217;s still several years away. Another question is over whether or not the improved coverage is something that people will notice, particularly as the official figures don&#8217;t always seem to reflect actual end-user experiences on the ground. Mobile coverage is notoriously difficult to pin down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 50 MPs have signed a letter by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Rural Services that calls on the government&#8217;s digital secretary, Matt Hancock, to ensure that 95% of the UK&#8217;s landmass can access a mobile service from all operators (Three UK, Vodafone, EE and O2) by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,406,405,60,32,36,38,63,96],"class_list":["post-16097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-4g","tag-5g","tag-ee","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-o2","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-politics","tag-three-uk","tag-vodafone"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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