A parliamentary group is sending a clear signal to the government that the UK would benefit from rural roaming PAMillions of people cannot get mobile phone coverage in the countryside because operators are failing to allow customers to access the networks of their competitors, it has been revealed. Phone users often struggle to make calls or connect to the internet in large areas of rural Britain which are covered by a single operator that is not theirs. Now a cross-party parliamentary group is urging the government and Ofcom to put pressure on Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three to introduce a single rural network, or rural roaming. It would enable customers to take advantage of other operators’ signals like they do abroad. It is estimated that it would boost coverage in one tenth of Britain’s land mass at little cost.

Source: The Times October 13, 2018 17:03 UTC