{"id":21212,"date":"2020-02-20T08:02:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T08:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=21212"},"modified":"2026-09-05T17:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:20:03","slug":"first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html","title":{"rendered":"First Mobile Mast LIVE in Scotland&#8217;s Delayed 4G Infill Scheme UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news, the <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-142\" title=\"Scottish Government\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/scotgov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scottish Government<\/a>&#8216;s \u00a325m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> Infill Programme, which originally aimed to improve rural mobile coverage (mostly notspots across the Highlands and Islands) by building a network of 45 new masts for UK mobile operators to use (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/03\/scotland-unveil-25m-mobile-infill-project-boost-4g-coverage.html\">here<\/a>), has finally built its first mast. Bad news, they&#8217;re well behind schedule.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Under the original plan construction &#8211; delivered by WHP Telecoms &#8211; was supposed to start toward the end of 2018 and then run for 4 years until the end of 2022, although today&#8217;s announcement states that &#8220;<em>up to<\/em>&#8221; 24 masts are now scheduled to be rolled out over the next two years (roughly half of what they originally expected to deliver by 2022). The remaining mast sites are merely said to still be &#8220;<em>under consideration.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> The funding includes \u00a310m from the EU (ERDF) and \u00a315m via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/scotgov\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Government<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>In the meantime we have our first live mast (i.e. built and with active support from UK mobile operators) and able to serve residents around New Luce in <strong>Wigtownshire<\/strong>. At present only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> are offering a 2G, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/3g\">3G<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> (mobile broadband) signal from this site, although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>) are expected to follow &#8220;<em>later this year<\/em>&#8221; (there&#8217;s no word on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a>). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> will apparently also &#8220;<em>provide service from a majority of sites in the programme<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Paul Wheelhouse, Scottish Connectivity Minister, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While telecommunications is a responsibility of UK ministers, improving mobile coverage is vital to achieving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/scotgov\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Government<\/a>\u2019s ambition to make sure everyone in Scotland has access to high-speed, reliable coverage.<\/p>\n<p>People in New Luce are the first to benefit but we hope that, like Wigtownshire, many more remote and rural parts of Scotland and Scotland\u2019s islands will soon enjoy improved, cost-effective connectivity as a result of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/scotgov\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Government<\/a>\u2019s work with industry and other partners, and our investment in the \u00a325 million S4GI Programme.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As for the reasons why the Scottish Government seems to be so far behind on their original plan, last year Paul Wheelhouse said (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/10\/uk-mobile-operators-blamed-for-scotlands-slow-4g-infill-scheme.html\">here<\/a>), &#8220;<em>The biggest challenge is trying to attract interest from mobile operators to actually utilise the masts<\/em>.&#8221; Sadly he didn&#8217;t elaborate and the trade body Mobile UK was similarly coy when we questioned them.<\/p>\n<p>However part of the issue could be related to a clash with the wider and similarly focused \u00a31bn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/10\/government-in-1bn-deal-for-95-geographic-uk-4g-mobile-by-2025.html\"><strong>Shared Rural Network<\/strong><\/a> (SRN) plan, which has been in gestation for the past year or so. Mobile operators will have wanted to figure that out first before knowing how to fit everything together in their forward plans.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> Infill scheme also harbours shades of the UK Government&#8217;s somewhat failed \u00a3150m<strong> Mobile Infrastructure Project<\/strong>, which set out with grand ambitions to improve mobile coverage in rural notspots but only ended up building 75 of the promised 575 masts (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/10\/impact-study-praises-failed-150m-uk-mobile-infrastructure-project.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The MIP became bogged down by a mix of problems, from delays in getting planning permission (some communities were unhappy and protested), to challenges with securing wayleave agreements via many different landowners and the difficulty of getting both a good power supply and backhaul capacity to such remote locations. Building the mast is one thing, but making it operational is another ball game entirely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 21st Feb 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As usual there&#8217;s a little more to this news under the hood. One of our readers has pointed out that there&#8217;s been another big change because 26 out of the originally identified 45 sites have now been completely dropped from the programme, due to lack of interest from mobile operators (e.g. the sites at Bruray in Skerries).<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s not all bad news because 16 new site &#8220;<em>candidates<\/em>&#8221; have been added back in for future consideration. You can see an updated map of this change here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/publications\/scottish-4g-infill-programme-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/publications\/scottish-4g-infill-programme-map\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news, the Scottish Government&#8216;s \u00a325m 4G Infill Programme, which originally aimed to improve rural mobile coverage (mostly notspots across the Highlands and Islands) by building a network of 45 new masts for UK mobile operators to use (here), has finally built its first mast. Bad news, they&#8217;re well behind schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,61,474,405,60,32,38,89,63,96],"class_list":["post-21212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-3g","tag-4g","tag-bt","tag-ee","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-o2","tag-politics","tag-scotland","tag-three-uk","tag-vodafone"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>First Mobile Mast LIVE in Scotland&#039;s Delayed 4G Infill Scheme UPDATE - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Good news, the Scottish Government&#039;s \u00a325m 4G Infill Programme, which originally aimed to improve rural mobile coverage (mostly notspots across the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First Mobile Mast LIVE in Scotland&#039;s Delayed 4G Infill Scheme UPDATE - ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Good news, the Scottish Government&#039;s \u00a325m 4G Infill Programme, which originally aimed to improve rural mobile coverage (mostly notspots across the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-20T08:02:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-09-05T16:20:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2_scotland_4g_infill_map_2019.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"845\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1168\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Jackson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ispreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ispreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Jackson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/02\\\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/02\\\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mark Jackson\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5\"},\"headline\":\"First Mobile Mast LIVE in Scotland&#8217;s Delayed 4G Infill Scheme UPDATE\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-20T08:02:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-05T16:20:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/02\\\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html\"},\"wordCount\":643,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/02\\\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2_scotland_4g_infill_map_2019.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"3G\",\"4G\",\"BT\",\"EE\",\"Mobile Broadband\",\"O2\",\"Politics\",\"Scotland\",\"Three UK\",\"Vodafone\"],\"articleSection\":[\"ISP News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/02\\\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/02\\\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/02\\\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html\",\"name\":\"First Mobile Mast LIVE in Scotland's Delayed 4G Infill Scheme UPDATE - ISPreview UK\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/02\\\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/02\\\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2_scotland_4g_infill_map_2019.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-20T08:02:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-05T16:20:03+00:00\",\"description\":\"Good news, the Scottish Government's \u00a325m 4G Infill Programme, which originally aimed to improve rural mobile coverage (mostly notspots across the\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/02\\\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/02\\\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/02\\\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2_scotland_4g_infill_map_2019.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2_scotland_4g_infill_map_2019.jpg\",\"width\":845,\"height\":1168},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/02\\\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"First Mobile Mast LIVE in Scotland&#8217;s Delayed 4G Infill Scheme UPDATE\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/\",\"name\":\"ISPreview UK\",\"description\":\"Top Broadband ISP and Mobile Provider Information Site\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"ISPreview.co.uk\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/07\\\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/07\\\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":1000,\"caption\":\"ISPreview.co.uk\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/ispreview\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/ispreview\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/mjack\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/bsky.app\\\/profile\\\/ispreview.bsky.social\",\"https:\\\/\\\/mastodon.social\\\/@ispreview\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5\",\"name\":\"Mark Jackson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Mark Jackson\"},\"description\":\"By Mark Jackson Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/ispreview\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/ispreview\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/author\\\/markj\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"First Mobile Mast LIVE in Scotland's Delayed 4G Infill Scheme UPDATE - ISPreview UK","description":"Good news, the Scottish Government's \u00a325m 4G Infill Programme, which originally aimed to improve rural mobile coverage (mostly notspots across the","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"First Mobile Mast LIVE in Scotland's Delayed 4G Infill Scheme UPDATE - ISPreview UK","og_description":"Good news, the Scottish Government's \u00a325m 4G Infill Programme, which originally aimed to improve rural mobile coverage (mostly notspots across the","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html","og_site_name":"ISPreview UK","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","article_published_time":"2020-02-20T08:02:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-09-05T16:20:03+00:00","og_image":[{"width":845,"height":1168,"url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2_scotland_4g_infill_map_2019.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Mark Jackson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ispreview","twitter_site":"@ispreview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mark Jackson","Estimated reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html"},"author":{"name":"Mark Jackson","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5"},"headline":"First Mobile Mast LIVE in Scotland&#8217;s Delayed 4G Infill Scheme UPDATE","datePublished":"2020-02-20T08:02:56+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-05T16:20:03+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html"},"wordCount":643,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2_scotland_4g_infill_map_2019.jpg","keywords":["3G","4G","BT","EE","Mobile Broadband","O2","Politics","Scotland","Three UK","Vodafone"],"articleSection":["ISP News"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html","name":"First Mobile Mast LIVE in Scotland's Delayed 4G Infill Scheme UPDATE - ISPreview UK","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2_scotland_4g_infill_map_2019.jpg","datePublished":"2020-02-20T08:02:56+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-05T16:20:03+00:00","description":"Good news, the Scottish Government's \u00a325m 4G Infill Programme, which originally aimed to improve rural mobile coverage (mostly notspots across the","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2_scotland_4g_infill_map_2019.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2_scotland_4g_infill_map_2019.jpg","width":845,"height":1168},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/first-mobile-mast-live-in-scotlands-delayed-4g-infill-scheme.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"First Mobile Mast LIVE in Scotland&#8217;s Delayed 4G Infill Scheme UPDATE"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/","name":"ISPreview UK","description":"Top Broadband ISP and Mobile Provider Information Site","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#organization","name":"ISPreview.co.uk","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"caption":"ISPreview.co.uk"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","https:\/\/x.com\/ispreview","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mjack\/","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ispreview.bsky.social","https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5","name":"Mark Jackson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/nggallery_import\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/nggallery_import\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/nggallery_import\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg","caption":"Mark Jackson"},"description":"By Mark Jackson Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","https:\/\/x.com\/ispreview"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/markj"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}