{"id":24085,"date":"2020-09-23T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=24085"},"modified":"2020-09-23T10:27:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T09:27:11","slug":"lord-ed-vaizeys-comical-anecdote-for-poor-rural-mobile-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/09\/lord-ed-vaizeys-comical-anecdote-for-poor-rural-mobile-cover.html","title":{"rendered":"Lord Vaizey&#8217;s Comical Anecdote for Poor Rural UK Mobile Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s former Culture and Digital Minister (2010 &#8211; 2016), Lord Vaizey of Didcot, gave his Maiden Speech this week in the House of Lords, during a debate on the new Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill. As part of that he included an amusing anecdote about the impact of his earlier inability to solve rural mobile coverage.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During his time as an MP <strong>Ed Vaizey<\/strong> was arguably responsible for much of the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> programme (known today as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Building Digital UK<\/a>) and began establishing the country&#8217;s gigabit ambitions long before the current lot of MPs, at least he did until being sacked in 2016 when <strong>Theresay May<\/strong> came to power as Prime Minister (you know.. back when Digital Ministers lasted longer than a few months).<\/p>\n<p>One of Ed&#8217;s somewhat less successful programmes was the \u00a3150m <strong>Mobile Infrastructure Project<\/strong> (MIP), which aimed to extend mobile coverage (mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a>) to around <strong>60,000 notspot premises<\/strong> across the United Kingdom (originally it intended to go further than this, but reality soon had its way).<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the MIP ended up being bogged down by a mix of very familiar problems, from delays in getting planning permission (e.g. communities protested the new masts), to challenges with securing wayleave agreements from landowners and the difficulty of securing data or power supplies for such remote masts, among other things (many of these issues continue to hamper similar programs today).<\/p>\n<p>In the end the MIP only delivered on a small slice of the programme&#8217;s original ambition, although to his credit Vaizey did apologise (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/03\/ed-vaizey-mp-admits-uk-mobile-infrastructure-project-was-a-flop.html\">here<\/a>). Interestingly this topic came up again as part of his maiden speech as a Lord and we felt as if the comical anecdote needed to be shared.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Lord Vaizey of Didcot said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In any event, I was lucky enough to serve for six years as the Minister for culture and technology in the other place [House of Commons], and those are the subjects on which I hope to bore your Lordships on regular occasions. I do not know how attentively you will listen to me, because I am not sure how good I was at my job. I was, for example, the Minister responsible for rural mobile broadband coverage. I remember\u2014and maybe the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson, will recall\u2014the day I was sacked by the new Prime Minister Theresa May.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know if there are any sackees in the Chamber at the moment, but you get a call from Downing Street; I was in my car, and Downing Street said, \u201c<em>The Prime Minister will call you in 15 minutes<\/em>\u201d. As I drove off through the rural hinterland of Oxfordshire, I realised that I had lost my mobile phone signal. It took the Prime Minister half an hour to get through to me, and I was a Minister for 15 minutes longer thanks to the lamentable job I had done in the previous six years.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In fairness Scotland&#8217;s \u00a325m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> Infill Programme has experienced some of the same problems as the MIP did and there&#8217;s a concern that the UK&#8217;s new \u00a31bn (public and private investment) <strong>Shared Rural Network<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/operators-sign-1bn-deal-for-95-geographic-uk-4g-cover-by-2026.html\">here<\/a>), which aims to extend geographic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> mobile cover to 95% of the UK by the end of 2025, may be at risk of the same. However, the Government are moving to try and tackle this with new legislation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/big-uk-rules-changes-to-boost-gigabit-broadband-and-5g-rollout.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s former Culture and Digital Minister (2010 &#8211; 2016), Lord Vaizey of Didcot, gave his Maiden Speech this week in the House of Lords, during a debate on the new Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill. 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