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Broadband and Mobile Phones: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to support people in areas of poor (a) broadband and (b) mobile phone signal during the switchover to digital alternatives to landlines.

answeredDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology

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Answering body: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Tabled: 2 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 4 Dec 2024
Answer: 11 Dec 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

2 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to support people in areas of poor (a) broadband and (b) mobile phone signal during the switchover to digital alternatives to landlines.
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2024
Answer published
For current landline-only customers it will be possible to order a VoIP landline without purchasing a general internet connection. Customers will only be offered VoIP if they live in an area with sufficient broadband connectivity. In areas with insufficie...

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