{"id":45032,"date":"2026-03-13T08:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=45032"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:53:21","slug":"second-publicly-funded-uk-4g-mobile-mast-for-total-not-spots-goes-live-on-islay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/second-publicly-funded-uk-4g-mobile-mast-for-total-not-spots-goes-live-on-islay.html","title":{"rendered":"Second Publicly Funded UK 4G Mobile Mast for Total Not Spots Goes Live on Islay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Government has today announced that the industry-led <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 has put its second Total Not Spot (TNS) site live, which has helped to expand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> (mobile broadband) coverage on the remote Island of Islay (Scotland) &#8211; reaching Machir Bay, Saligo Bay, Loch Gorm, and Cultoon Stone Circle, as well as along the western coast.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The SRN \u2013 originally supported by a commitment of <strong>\u00a3501m<\/strong> in public funding and <strong>\u00a3532m<\/strong> of private investment from 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> cover from at least one operator is expected to reach 98% in England, 91% in Scotland, 95% in Wales and 98% in N.Ireland. But this falls to 90% in England, 74% in Scotland, 80% in Wales and 85% in N.Ireland when looking at coverage from all MNOs combined.<\/div>\n<p>The SRN has already achieved its first target a year ahead of schedule by ensuring that 96% of the UK\u2019s landmass can now access a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> mobile network from at least one operator (<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>), although the coverage range drops to 89-90% when looking look across all operators (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/11\/ofcom-gigabit-broadband-covers-87-percent-of-uk-as-5g-hits-97-percent.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The project has now switched to focus on tackling the second target to reduce <strong>Total Not-Spot<\/strong> (TNS) areas by January 2027. The first TNS site was delivered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> on South Uist in Nov 2024 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/11\/o2-switch-on-first-publicly-funded-uk-4g-mobile-mast-for-total-not-spot-areas.html\">here<\/a>) and the new mast on Islay is located near Kilchoman, on the west of the island; this also provides new coverage to 14 kilometres of roads, paths, and tracks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Liz Lloyd, UK Telecoms Minister, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFast and reliable mobile coverage is absolutely essential for modern life. It helps our emergency services respond to incidents, keeps our businesses growing, and makes it easier for local communities to stay in touch with one another.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the government\u2019s Shared Rural Network Programme, every part of the UK \u2013 including Islay\u2019s rural not spots that have previously had no mobile coverage \u2013 can finally make the most of the digital age.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mast on Islay was first identified as a potential site under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/scotgov\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Government<\/a>\u2019s original S4GI programme which funded the acquisition activities including securing the planning and landowner consents. Whilst it did not ultimately progress through the S4GI programme, its delivery through the SRN is said to be a &#8220;<em>strong example of successful collaboration between mobile network operators and the UK Government<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the two TNS sites live in Scotland, there are also 41 Extended Area Service (EAS) Scottish sites live which make use of existing Home Office emergency service masts to support commercial coverage from all operators. Many more TNS and EAS sites in rural areas across Scotland are projected to go live in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Current SRN 4G Geographic Coverage Progress (March 2026)<\/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\/2026-uk-internet-statistics\/SRN-Coverage-Progress-March-2026.webp\" alt=\"SRN-Coverage-Progress-March-2026\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Government has today announced that the industry-led Shared Rural Network (SRN) project has put its second Total Not Spot (TNS) site live, which has helped to expand 4G (mobile broadband) coverage on the remote Island of Islay (Scotland) &#8211; reaching Machir Bay, Saligo Bay, Loch Gorm, and Cultoon Stone Circle, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,60,38,89],"class_list":["post-45032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-4g","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-politics","tag-scotland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/116221024981392974","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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