Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 24
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Department lacks visibility on Shared Rural Network progress due to commercially sensitive operator data.
Recommendation
We asked the Department how it will know whether it has achieved its premises and roads targets and whether there was a risk of getting to the end of 2025 without being able to assess progress.45 The Department told us that it would like better visibility of its progress against these targets, including more detailed coverage forecasts, and it is speaking with the mobile network operators about getting the necessary information.46 It described the challenge of trying to get the mobile network operators to share commercially sensitive data about their network’s coverage. The Department said it would like the mobile network operators to share the data with it privately.47
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 11 July 2025. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗