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Mobile Phones: Lewes

Commons · Question 83700 · Tabled 20 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record

Answered 28 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by James MacCleary

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure full mobile phone signal in (a) Upper Dicker and (b) other rural areas in Lewes constituency.

Answer

Answered by Kanishka Narayan, 28 Oct 2025

In Ofcom’s Connected Nations Spring Update, published on 8 May 2025, it is reported that 4G is available across 93% of rural areas in the Lewes constituency from all four mobile network operators (MNOs), while 5G is available outside 74% of rural premises...