{"id":7801,"date":"2014-10-13T14:57:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T13:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:57:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T13:57:57","slug":"ee-uk-pledge-improve-mobile-internet-voice-coverage-shropshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/ee-uk-pledge-improve-mobile-internet-voice-coverage-shropshire.html","title":{"rendered":"EE Pledge to Improve Mobile Internet and Voice Coverage in Shropshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> has apologised to some of Shropshire&#8217;s residents after many locals, especially those in rural areas, complained of worsening coverage following the merger between T-Mobile and Orange UK several years ago.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The good news is that <strong>\u00a3150m<\/strong> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a>&#8217;s planned <strong>\u00a31.5bn network upgrade<\/strong> has already been earmarked to fill &#8220;<em>notspots<\/em>&#8221; across the United Kingdom and this will also benefit many of the related areas in Shropshire.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> told a joint Shropshire Council committee meeting in Edgeton that most of the regional problems were down to old equipment and that the network actually had larger coverage in the area than before, although this differs from what several attendants had to say (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/news\/2014\/10\/13\/ee-promises-shropshires-mobile-phone-signals-will-improve-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Gareth Hewlett, EE&#8217;s Head of Customer Networks in Shropshire, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>There has been increased usage and people are becoming more and more reliant on their mobiles. 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But there is an ability to increase coverage further and that is something we need to work on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We inherited old equipment and now we\u2019re going through it all and replacing it<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Leaving aside the interesting remark about &#8220;<em>inheriting<\/em>&#8221; old equipment, EE said that they hoped to have the &#8220;<em>investment and everything<\/em>&#8221; in place by 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator EE has apologised to some of Shropshire&#8217;s residents after many locals, especially those in rural areas, complained of worsening coverage following the merger between T-Mobile and Orange UK several years ago.<\/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":[62,61,405,60,38],"class_list":["post-7801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-3g","tag-4g","tag-ee","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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