5G: Infrastructure
Commons · Question 81047 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Gregory Stafford
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what estimate her Department has made of the number of additional telecoms infrastructure sites that will be required to deliver high-quality standalone 5G coverage to all populated are
Answer
Answered by Kanishka Narayan, 20 Oct 2025
Government’s ambition is for all populated areas to have access to higher quality standalone 5G by 2030. It is for the mobile network operators to determine how best to deploy the required infrastructure to achieve this.The need for additional sites will ...