Broadband and Mobile Phones: Rural Areas

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport written question – answered at on 16 January 2020.

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Photo of Damian Hinds Damian Hinds Conservative, East Hampshire

What steps her Department is taking to improve (a) broadband and (b) mobile phone coverage in rural areas.

Photo of Edward Timpson Edward Timpson Conservative, Eddisbury

What steps her Department is taking to improve (a) broadband and (b) mobile phone coverage in rural areas.

Photo of Matt Warman Matt Warman The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

The government’s £200m Rural Gigabit Connectivity programme is already supporting rollout of gigabit broadband in rural areas.

The government has also pledged £5bn of funding for Gigabit broadband in the ‘hardest to reach’, predominantly rural, areas of the UK.

The government announced in-principle support in October 2019 for the Mobile Network Operators’ Shared Rural Network proposal. It aims to collectively increase 4G mobile coverage throughout the United Kingdom to 95% by 2025.

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