{"id":42483,"date":"2025-07-17T08:49:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=42483"},"modified":"2025-07-17T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:54:22","slug":"30-government-funded-4g-mobile-mast-upgrades-now-live-across-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30-government-funded-4g-mobile-mast-upgrades-now-live-across-wales.html","title":{"rendered":"30 Government Funded 4G Mobile Mast Upgrades Now Live Across Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Government has this morning revealed that a total of 30 publicly-funded rural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> (mobile broadband) mast upgrades have now gone live across Wales as part of the industry-led \u00a31bn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/operators-sign-1bn-deal-for-95-geographic-uk-4g-cover-by-2026.html\">Shared Rural Network<\/a> (SRN) project, which recently succeeded (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/06\/a-year-early-1bn-srn-project-delivers-95-percent-uk-cover-of-4g-mobile.html\">here<\/a>) in extending geographic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> coverage from at least one operator to 95% of the UK (aggregate).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The SRN \u2013 originally supported by <strong>\u00a3501m<\/strong> of public funding from the government and <strong>\u00a3532m<\/strong> of private investment from UK network operators \u2013 involves both the reciprocal sharing of existing masts in certain areas and the demand-led building and sharing of new masts in others between the operators.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> The target varies between regions, thus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> coverage from all mobile operators combined is ultimately expected to reach 90% in England, 74% in Scotland, 80% in Wales and 85% in N.Ireland.<\/div>\n<p>Most of the early work on this project typically involved private investment from the main mobile network operators, but over the past two years we\u2019ve also seen government-funded mast upgrades and new site builds taking place in other parts of the country. A total of 56 mast upgrades have now gone live across the UK via government funding, and 30 of those are in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>This phase of the work focuses on the part of the SRN that sees the government providing a total of \u00a3184m from their pot to the Home Office and mobile network operators, which is helping to upgrade <strong>Extended Area Service<\/strong> (EAS) masts being built as part of the 4G <strong>Emergency Services Network<\/strong> (ESN) \u2013 these masts previously only connected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> customers and anyone making 999 calls. But the upgrade means that all mobile operators can now benefit from these sites.<\/p>\n<p>Residents, local businesses and community organisations in areas including Llangernyw, Pandy Tudur, Gwytherin, Cwmystwyth, Llanymawddwy, can now take advantage of better mobile connectivity (inc. over 2,500km of roads across Wales). These activations also bring enhanced connectivity to the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, Eryri National Park and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, including Wye Valley and Bryniau Clwyd a Dyffryn Dyfrdwy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Secretary of State for Wales, Jo Stevens, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFunded by UK Government investment, 30 new sites in Wales now have fast and reliable mobile internet access in areas which were previously poorly served. Reliable connectivity improves every aspect of day-to-day life in rural Wales and makes a huge difference for local businesses, residents, and visitors.<\/p>\n<p>This is an important step forward in our mission to kickstart the economy and unlock opportunity in rural areas across Wales.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the SRN programme began in 2020, an additional 34,000 square kilometres are now receiving 4G coverage from all four operators (inc. an additional 280,000 premises and 16,000km of the UK\u2019s roads) &#8211; <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\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> across the UK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>4G Mobile Coverage (SRN) Progress &#8211; 29th June 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"padding: 0px; width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2025-uk-internet-statistics\/Shared-Rural-Network-UK-4G-Coverage-Progress-June-2025.webp\" alt=\"Shared-Rural-Network-UK-4G-Coverage-Progress-June-2025\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Government has this morning revealed that a total of 30 publicly-funded rural 4G (mobile broadband) mast upgrades have now gone live across Wales as part of the industry-led \u00a31bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project, which recently succeeded (here) in extending geographic 4G coverage from at least one operator to 95% of the UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,406,474,405,60,32,38,89,63,475,96],"class_list":["post-42483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-4g","tag-5g","tag-bt","tag-ee","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-o2","tag-politics","tag-scotland","tag-three-uk","tag-virgin-media","tag-vodafone"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/114867483349790710","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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