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BT<\/a>’s Chief Security and Networks Officer, Howard Watson, has written a new blog post that contrasts their delivery progress on the \u00a31bn industry-led Shared Rural Network<\/a> (SRN) project (i.e. extending 4G<\/a> mobile coverage to 95% of the UK by the end of 2025) with the slower pace at Vodafone<\/a>, Three UK<\/a> and O2<\/a> (VMO2).<\/p>\n

The somewhat gloating post is roughly timed to coincide with this week’s debate in Parliament<\/strong> (Westminster Hall at 4:30pm on 24th Jan) on the SRN and next month’s conclusion of a related programme review by the National Audit Office<\/strong> (NAO). Both of which will no doubt flag up the now expected delays to completion of the (phase one) coverage improvements for \u201cpartial not-spot areas<\/em>\u201c (i.e. areas which receive coverage from at least one operator, but not all), which needs to be achieved by June 2024<\/strong> (at this point 4G<\/a> must cover 88% of the UK\u2019s landmass).<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> The SRN also aims to provide guaranteed coverage to an additional 280,000 UK premises, 16,000km of roads and boost \u2018in car\u2019 coverage on around 45,000 km of road, as well as better indoor coverage for around 1.2 million premises. Individually, each operator will aim to reach 90% geographic coverage.<\/div>\n

EE<\/a> announced last week that they’d been able to complete the first phase of the programme \u201csix months ahead of schedule<\/em>\u201d (here<\/a>), which meant their geographic 4G<\/a> mobile network overage in each individual nation now stands at: England (94%), Northern Ireland (89%), Scotland (77%), and Wales (86%).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, reports last year claimed that Three UK<\/a>, O2<\/a> (VMO2) and Vodafone<\/a> had reportedly warned the government that the first phase of their SRN deployment could be delayed by as much as 2 years (here<\/a>). This is said to reflect the impact of both the COVID-19 pandemic and long-delays (up to 500 days) in being able to secure planning permission for the sites. But Watson gloats<\/a> that such excuses didn’t stop EE<\/a> achieving their part of the project ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n

Howard Watson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Take Scotland. Despite Government funding to build 55 brand new sites, two networks have managed just under a third of sites between them, while the fourth has managed to add 4G to just a single site over the past three years. On the UK Government\u2019s flagship mobile policy \u2013 the Shared Rural Network \u2013 Ministers have reportedly received an unwelcome request from CTOs of those same companies asking for extra support in order not to miss their targets. One has already gone as far as to tell the Business and Trade Select Committee that they would miss the target.<\/p>\n

Of course, disruption can happen. Covid did impact on workforce personnel and supply chains, but they impacted networks equally. EE<\/a> entered the SRN agreement clear-eyed, understanding the deployment environment and the difficulties we would undoubtedly face. We therefore designed our programme to mitigate risks and delays to our roll-out. During the programme, we also made difficult decisions to divert spend and resource from other network programmes to overcome issues in a timely manner, given the importance of meeting the deadline to our customers and due to the clear financial penalties for non-delivery.<\/p>\n

In other words, delivering legally binding commitments like these to Government takes a concerted effort and strategic sacrifices; there is always a choice for how, what and where a business chooses to invest. And given the involvement of taxpayer money to fund coverage, it\u2019s hard to blame the wider investment environment for missing this licence commitment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In fairness, EE went into the SRN with the strongest geographic 4G coverage of any UK mobile operator after having initially invested more than their rivals into improving rural coverage, and as such it\u2019s not a huge surprise to see them become the first to complete the first phase of the SRN. We’ve also seen a fair amount of activity from Vodafone<\/a> and O2<\/a>, although they’ve still clearly got some catching up to do and Three UK<\/a> is in a similar boat (approval of Vodafone’s planned merger with Three UK may change that).<\/p>\n

Ofcom<\/a> are also expected to publish their own review of the SRN’s progress this year, which should provide a lot more information on how far behind the three operators really are and what they must do to correct that. Going forward, the operators also face a deadline for improvements in \u201ctotal not-spot areas<\/em>\u201d by early 2027, although so far, they’re all claiming to be on-target for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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