Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 79805

Shared Rural Network: Aerials

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the decision to reduce the number of planned masts under the Shared Rural Network programme on (a) rural mobile covera

Answer

Kanishka Narayan

The first part of the Shared Rural Network (SRN), which targeted areas of the UK that have 4G coverage from at least one, but not all, mobile network operators was completed last year and covered a greater area of UK landmass than originally expected, put...

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