and Virgin Media O2 have entered a long-term network-sharing agreement to enhance rural connectivity  The agreement builds on the existing collaboration between Vodafone UK and Virgin Media O2, including the Shared Rural Network initiative, to deliver quality mobile coverage in hard-to-reach areas across the UK. “With this agreement and our merger with Three, we will

Virgin Media O2 has used a helicopter to deliver three new 4G mobile phone masts to the remote Uist islands in the Outer Hebrides as part of the £1bn Shared Rural Network programme. Uist is a group of six islands that are part of the Outer Hebridean Archipelago, which is part of the Outer Hebrides

Virgin Media O2 has installed its 100th site under the £1 billion Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme. The SRN  initiative is a partnership between the Government and mobile network operators aimed at extending 4G coverage to 95 per cent of the UK by the end of next year.. Nearly 80 of the sites are in

EE has boosted 4G coverage in the southern Lake District following the upgrade of two masts. 

Three has built its hundredth 4G rural site as part of the Shared Rural Network programme. The £1 billion SRN programme will increase all operators’ 4G coverage increase to 90 per cent of UK 95 per cent by 2026.

Virgin Media O2 has commissioned its 50th site as part of the £1 billion  Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme.

EE has upgraded 1362 sites since the SRN deal was signed in March 2020

Work is underway across all home nations as part of the wider SRN programme, with 51 new sites now live

Plan will close out “partial not spots”

The project will see new and existing phone masts built or upgraded to end poor or patchy 4G signals

EE is investing heavily to reduce ‘partial not spots’ by 2024

EE will join the second stage of the Shared Rural Network

First steps taken after agreement reached in March to provide coverage