UK networks pledge £5 billion to fix coverage issues

The UK Government have announced a major landmark deal with the four major mobile networks to improve mobile coverage in the UK. Under the terms of the deal, the four networks - Vodafone, Three, O2 and EE - have guaranteed to spend £5 billion together to offer guaranteed mobile coverage to 90% of premises across the UK by 2017. The deal was announced by Culture Secretary Sajid Javid and was reached in response of the government's plans to introduce a new law allowing customers to use any available mobile network. Under the new agreement - which replaced the original plans for national roaming - the networks have guaranteed to offer voice and text coverage to 90 percent of the UK as well as offer full mobile coverage (including data services) to 85 percent of the UK. According to the statement, the networks have collectively agreed to: A guaranteed £5bn investment programme to improve mobile infrastructure by 2017; Guaranteed voice and text coverage from each operator across 90 per cent of the UK geographic area by 2017, halving the areas currently blighted by patchy coverage as a result of partial ‘not-spots’; Full coverage from all four mobile operators will increase from 69 per cent to 85 ...

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