Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 80202

Mobile Phones: Rural Areas

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Adam Dance

Liberal DemocratYeovil

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help improve mobile phone signal in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) other rural communities.

Answer

Kanishka Narayan
In Ofcom’s Connected Nations Spring Update, published on 8 May 2025, it is reported that 4G is available across 96% of the Yeovil constituency from all four mobile network operators (MNOs), while 5G is available outside 97% of premises in the constituency...

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