A further five sites in Wales, including Pembrokeshire, and 18 more sites in remote locations across Scotland, such as the Cairngorm and Lock Lomond national parks, have also been completed.

The company is now working to build over 100 more new ESN sites in rural areas in the coming months, in advance of the UK’s Shared Rural Network (SRN) coming on stream.

The SRN, first announced in October 2019, is designed to wipe “not-spots” from the map, providing what the government claims will be “high-quality” 4G coverage to 95% of the UK by 2025. This followed years of complaints by mobile consumers and businesses that the major political parties had consistently failed rural businesses by lacking a credible solution to improve mobile 4G and 5G coverage.

“With ESN, we are focused on building the coverage where the emergency services need it most to ensure they can best protect and serve society,” said Richard Harrap, managing director of ESN at EE. “Often this is in rural areas. Our new site builds and upgrades to existing 4G masts for the ESN have also meant further expanded coverage in rural areas, and improved coverage in hard-to-reach areas and along key roads such as our 500th site in Glencoe.

Lords minister Baroness Williams said she believes the ESN will provide an innovative, mobile-based communications system to transform the response of the emergency services. “Building increased coverage in rural locations throughout the UK is an essential part of the programme, and this milestone means we are ever closer to ensuring that our dedicated police, fire and ambulance crews can communicate across, and access, some of the most hard-to-reach areas,” she said.

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