{"id":8601,"date":"2015-02-02T10:41:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T10:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=8601"},"modified":"2015-02-02T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T10:58:31","slug":"ofcom-tweak-commits-mobile-operators-90-uk-landmass-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/02\/ofcom-tweak-commits-mobile-operators-90-uk-landmass-coverage.html","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom Tweak Commits Mobile Operators to 90% UK Landmass Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As expected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> has started to put the recent coverage agreement between Mobile Network Operators (MNO) and the Government into practice by introducing a new licence variation(s) that commits <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\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/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> to provide voice coverage across 90% of the United Kingdom&#8217;s landmass by the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new agreement, which was reached just before Christmas (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/uk-mobile-operators-agree-5bn-deal-extend-geographic-coverage-90.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #227ab4;\">details<\/span><\/a>), included among other things a pledge to extend geographic mobile network coverage (voice and text) of the United Kingdom from 80% today to 90% by 2017. On top of that mobile data coverage (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/3g\">3G<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> [Mobile Broadband]) will be extended to 85% (currently 69%).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Culture Secretary, Sajid Javid, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>For far too long, too many parts of the UK have regularly suffered from poor mobile coverage leaving them unable to make calls or send texts. Now at last we have progress that will give the UK the world-class mobile phone coverage it needs and deserves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The deal will also bring \u00a35bn investment by the mobile networks into the UK\u2019s infrastructure, which will help drive this Government\u2019s long-term economic plan<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to reflect that landmass \/ geographic coverage is a much harder pledge to meet than the usual population \/ premises coverage commitments, which is what operators typically tout (see below), because fewer people live in rural areas (the urban statistical bias has a big impact) and yet rural areas make up most of the UK\u2019s landmass.<\/p>\n<p>All of the primary mobile providers currently meet the existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/3g\">3G<\/a> mobile coverage obligation to reach 90% of UK premises \/ population, while <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> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> have indicated that they intend to match <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a>&#8217;s 98% indoor coverage obligation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/licensing.ofcom.org.uk\/binaries\/spectrum\/mobile-wireless-broadband\/cellular\/licences\/VoiceCov-compliance-Final-20150130.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">licence variations<\/a> (PDF) impact the <strong>900MHz<\/strong> and <strong>1800MHz<\/strong> radio spectrum bands, although the actual commitment also appears to include <strong>2100MHz<\/strong> and <strong>800MHz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Coverage Obligation<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>The Licensee shall by no later than 31 December 2017 provide and thereafter maintain an electronic communications network that is capable of providing mobile voice telecommunications services to an area covering at least 90% of the geographic landmass of the United Kingdom at at least one of the minimum signal strengths set out in Table 1 of this condition. For the avoidance of doubt the Licensee shall be permitted to meet the obligation set out in this condition using any frequencies and technologies available to the Licensee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Technology and Band (Minimum Signal Threshold)<\/strong><br \/>\nGSM900 (-93 dBm)<br \/>\nGSM1800 (-93 dBm)<br \/>\nUMTS2100 (-103 dBm)<br \/>\nLTE800 (-115 dBm)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As part of the agreement the mobile operators had wanted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> to reduce their proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/08\/ofcom-re-examine-huge-uk-mobile-operator-licence-fee-hike.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #227ab4;\">licence fee hike<\/span><\/a> (applicable to the 900MHz and 1800MHz radio spectrum bands). The regulator has not said precisely what they intend to do yet, but today&#8217;s update does confirm that they will &#8220;<em>shortly<\/em>&#8221; consult on this issue. The regulator also plans to publish a new Mobile Broadband speeds study during the spring.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the figure of \u00a35bn isn&#8217;t broken down and appears to reflect some of the existing commercial spend through the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> deployment etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected Ofcom has started to put the recent coverage agreement between Mobile Network Operators (MNO) and the Government into practice by introducing a new licence variation(s) that commits Three UK, EE, O2 and Vodafone to provide voice coverage across 90% of the United Kingdom&#8217;s landmass by the end of 2017.<\/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":[62,61,405,60,32,38,63,96],"class_list":["post-8601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-3g","tag-4g","tag-ee","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-o2","tag-politics","tag-three-uk","tag-vodafone"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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