{"id":4171,"date":"2013-09-24T16:19:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T15:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2013-09-24T16:19:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T15:19:06","slug":"gbp150m-mobile-network-upgrade-connects-first-uk-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/09\/gbp150m-mobile-network-upgrade-connects-first-uk-community.html","title":{"rendered":"GBP150m Mobile Network Upgrade Connects First UK Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government&#8217;s Department for Culture, Media &amp; Sport (DCMS) has confirmed that the first community to benefit from its \u00a3150m Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP) to improve Mobile Broadband and phone coverage will be the rural village of Weaverthorpe in North Yorkshire (England).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The MIP was established as part of the recent <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> (LTE) auction (<strong>800MHz<\/strong> and <strong>2.6GHz<\/strong>) and is intended to help build new mobile masts to cover those who live in areas of poor or non-existent service, which should benefit around <strong>60,000 premises <\/strong>and help to ensure that Mobile Broadband services become available to \u201c<em>at least<\/em>\u201d 98% of UK people by the end of 2015 (note: the original target was 2017).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Ed Vaizey, Communications Minister, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We are now delivering mobile coverage to small communities thanks to the government\u2019s investment in our digital infrastructure. For the first time, these small, rural communities will enjoy the benefits of mobile phones that the rest of us take for granted<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arqiva.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arqiva<\/a>, which won the contract to build out the network, has already revealed a vague roll-out plan and announced that the first sites to benefit should \u201c<em>go live<\/em>\u201d by the <strong>end of 2013<\/strong>; these include locations in Cornwall, Northumberland, Strabane, Aberdeenshire and Powys (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/07\/arqiva-map-confirms-first-uk-areas-to-benefit-from-150m-mobile-upgrade.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government&#8217;s Department for Culture, Media &amp; Sport (DCMS) has confirmed that the first community to benefit from its \u00a3150m Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP) to improve Mobile Broadband and phone coverage will be the rural village of Weaverthorpe in North Yorkshire (England).<\/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":[62,61,60],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-3g","tag-4g","tag-mobile-broadband"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GBP150m Mobile Network Upgrade Connects First UK Community - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Government&#039;s Department for Culture, Media &amp; 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