Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 28
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Lack of detailed railway mobile coverage data hinders understanding of challenges
Conclusion
The Department told us that it lacks sufficiently detailed data of coverage across the railways. To understand the coverage challenges along different stretches of track, it needs data for each metre. In 2020, the National Infrastructure Commission recommended that Ofcom should report on mobile coverage on the railways at least every two years. Ofcom’s last study on rail coverage was in 2019. The Department said that it had asked Ofcom to improve reporting of coverage on the railways, including improving how Ofcom measures coverage.54
Government Response
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