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Telecommunications: Aerials

Commons · Question 90488 · Tabled 12 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record

Answered 21 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring tower companies to (a) improve coverage and (b) re-invest in new sites.

Answer

Answered by Kanishka Narayan, 21 Nov 2025

Tower companies play a key role in the market; they deliver the physical infrastructure that hosts telecommunications equipment. This allows mobile network operators to provide communities and businesses across the UK with the mobile coverage they need an...