Sitting in a not-spot in the countryside? It's not great news
The UK's mobile networks are unlikely to hit the government target for 95 percent coverage of the country by December 2025, because the remaining locations will be increasingly harder and therefore costlier to reach.from House of Commons Public Accounts Committee says that to meet the 95 percent target, build-out progress will have to continue at the same rate as over the past year, but that this may not be sustainable due to increasing costs.
According to Building Digital UK, an agency of DSIT, the operators have been averaging an increase in coverage of about 0.1 percentage points a month over the past five or six months, and the challenge is to sustain that rate of increase in order to hit the eventual target. On the Extended Area Service element of the program, the costs are said to have risen by an estimated £44 million due to VAT and inflation alone. To absorb this additional cost, DSIT is said to be considering ways it might deliver the required increase in coverage, but using fewer new masts.
But Ofcom’s licence agreements with the operators allow for relief of their individual obligations if costs are deemed excessive, thus leading to uncertainty about who will foot the bill for the extra cost or whether the target for 95 percent 4G coverage will be met.
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