‘Mobile not-spots’ and broadband availability high on agenda at FUW meeting
The lack of network coverage in rural Wales was high on the agenda at the Royal Welsh Show yesterday (Tuesday 21 July) when the Farmers’ Union of Wales joined forces with Ofcom at its pavilion alongside the main ring. The FUW and Ofcom held wide-ranging talks with farmers and representatives from the communications industry including the […]
Rural business anger at inadequate mobile coverage deal
Rural businesses have slammed proposals to deliver mobile phone coverage to 90 percent of the country by 2017. The commitment has been agreed by the four major mobile phone providers with Culture Secretary Sajid Javid but will still leave swathes of the British countryside without mobile phone connection. The CLA, which represents landowners, farmers and […]
Farmers urged to act
The Government has awarded Warwick-based Arqiva the multi-million pound contract to build new mobile communication masts to provide mobile phone and broadband coverage in “not spots” where there is currently little or no coverage. Wales, Lancashire and Aberdeenshire are the first areas to benefit from the £150 million Mobile Infrastructure Project when masts will be […]
