10 signatures reached
To: Government
Improve Rural Mobile Phone Coverage
Improve mobile phone coverage in rural areas and reduce the amount of "not spots" (areas with no coverage) across the UK.
What we want to push for is a change in legislation for how masts are placed and also to give the government better powers over local planning officials and land owners to make getting masts in the right areas easier and more cost effective
Why is this important?
With all the mobile networks claiming 99% population coverage for mobile phone signal why is only 63% of the UK land mass covered by signal. Over 4500 miles of UK roads have no mobile phone coverage at all. This is not only dangerous but it is stifling development in rural areas and holding back local businesses.
The government have an arrangement with the 4 main UK networks to spend £5bn by the end of 2017 to improve this but they have already come up against issues themselves with planning permission, un-co-operative landlords, site access and power to the sites.
If we can make enough noise to make them realise how important this is to our communities then they will make the necessary changes needed to push through these plans. If we don't? We can see the 2017 deadline come and go and very little will change apart from 4g coverage in cities getting faster and faster.
How it will be delivered
I will email the signatures to the relevant members of government dealing with the project.
