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North Norfolk MP calls on locals to expose mobile notspots and broadband failures - News By ISPreview.co.uk #4G #5G #BuildingDigitalUK #Cityfibre #EE #MobileBroadband
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October 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
The second of Oxford’s notorious mobile reception ‘notspots’, the St Clements area, could finally receive a signal after the City Council approved plans for new antennae on the roof of Alice House, a student accommodation block. They would replace those on Magdalen’s demolished Waynflete Building.
September 17, 2026 at 3:15 PM
It’s odd & frustrating when the signal drops out! It must be a nightmare for business though!😔
#MobileConnections

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How lamp-posts could help fix phone signal in Cambridgeshire
A council is considering technology involving street furniture to improve so-called mobile notspots.
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September 2, 2026 at 5:56 AM
How lamp-posts could help fix bad phone signal

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How lamp-posts could help fix phone signal in Cambridgeshire
A council is considering technology involving street furniture to improve so-called mobile notspots.
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September 2, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Yeah. For a while it looked like a few schemes could make a real difference. Very frustrating. They’ve even pulled the plug on funding for full fibre broadband rollout and handed the work to ‘business partners’ who are merrily upgrading small towns for easy profits and ignoring the notspots.
September 22, 2023 at 8:55 AM
April 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
rural communities still waiting for super fast broadband and 4g notspots (especially where community threw out planning permission for a mast 20 years ago)
October 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
England has 140,000+ miles of footpaths, but
Onward's new report shows that access to nature isn’t equal:
🌳 1 in 3 lack good access
🌳 Nature isn't prioritised in urban areas
🌳 ‘Notspots’ for nature exist nationwide
🚨New Onward report🚨
🏞️Walk on the Wild Side🏞️
England’s greenspaces are a great source of pride. But 1/3 of people have poor access to nature. We call for a new North Sea National Trail plus numerous initiatives to improve interaction with nature🧵
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Walk On The Wild Side - Report - Onward
Bringing people closer to nature
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November 21, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Status of Scottish government £28.75 million initiative to build 4G infrastructure in up to 55 mobile “notspots” https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-4g-infill-programme-progress-update/
February 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Ofcom has lit the fuse on the smartphone space race, with the regulator making the UK the first country in Western Europe where mobile operators team up with satellite companies to deploy new “space-age” services.

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Ofcom Gives Green Light for Satellite to Smartphone Services
Ofcom's new guidelines will allow mobile operators to partner with satellite firms as part of a national push to eliminate mobile notspots.
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December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Ofcom has lit the fuse on the smartphone space race, with the regulator making the UK the first country in Western Europe where mobile operators team up with satellite companies to deploy new “space-age” services.

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Ofcom Gives Green Light for Satellite to Smartphone Services
Ofcom's new guidelines will allow mobile operators to partner with satellite firms as part of a national push to eliminate mobile notspots.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Mobile data is now important enough to pretty much everyone that networks should be mandated to fix *all* notspots with pico-cells, especially along railway lines and stations. It should be a condition of their spectrum license.
August 1, 2026 at 11:30 AM
I get that the US is so vast there will always be digital notspots, but I'd expect that to be the case right in the sticks and not in urban areas.
February 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Rural notspots – why there's no phone signal in the countryside and how to fix it
✍️ Simon Rockman
Rural notspots – why there's no phone signal in the countryside and how to fix it
It was billed as the solution to poor or absent mobile coverage, but in five years the £1bn Shared Rural Network has built just one tower in a tota...
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April 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
O2 became the first mobile provider in Europe to offer Direct to Device satellite services when it launched in Feb 2026. Ookla has taken a look at usage so far (not performance just yet). And it’s being used in areas with notspots as you’d expect like the highlands, but it’s also got city coverage
April 29, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Whilst some parts of London have 3 or more gigabit broadband providers passing their property (and I dont mean just Openreach resellers) there are places that doint have any at all: 390000 not-spot addressez in the GLA area.
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London Mayor Publishes Framework to Tackle Gigabit Broadband Notspots
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and London Councils have today published a new London Infrastructure Framework (LIF), which seeks to establish a shared long-te
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March 16, 2026 at 7:27 PM
ScotRail trains in the Highlands to use Starlink satellite connectivity. Six class 158 trains will benefit from low-earth orbit connectivity to address rural passenger 'notspots' during a six-month trial
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ScotRail trains in the Highlands equipped with satellite communications platform Starlink | FutureScot
Six ScotRail trains in the Highlands equipped with satellite communications technology in a UK first trial
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May 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Feed: "The Register"
By: Dan Robinson on Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites
Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone
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February 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#Eurobites: It's API hour for Nokia and StarHub; TIM in line for €1 billion windfall; ZIRA touts Telco AI Platform; UK remote-working notspots ranked.

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Eurobites: It's API hour for Nokia and StarHub
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: TIM in line for €1 billion windfall; ZIRA touts Telco AI Platform; UK remote-working notspots ranked.
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January 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Oh no, one of the weird town notspots (Didcot).
May 3, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Second, local nature ‘notspots’ need to be tackled by increasing public rights of way, introducing more access grant options in ELMs, harnessing the planning system and utilising innovative finance solutions.
November 21, 2024 at 8:54 AM
England has thousands of parks, 140,000 miles of footpaths and rights of way, and dozens of national trails, parks and landscapes. But access to nature is unequal across the country. Access is particularly poor in eastern England and local ‘notspots’ like Blackpool and Darlington
November 21, 2024 at 8:54 AM