SNP candidate Angus Brendan MacNeil has written to the main mobile network companies, urging a better mobile network for the islands.
Angus MacNeil commented: “Mobile phones have long since passed the point when they were seen as a luxury, now they are ubiquitous and a social utility as well as essential for businesses to function as efficiently as everywhere else, not just around the country but around the world.
“I have long been banging the drum for improving mobile network coverage in the islands, but progress was hampered by the lack of a fibre network to the transmitters to enable a proper network to operate fully.”
With high speed broadband about to commence following the installation of fibre optic cables across the islands , there is a “backhaul” capacity to enable a better mobile infrastructure, he added.
He said the mobile phone companies should outline their plans to improve signal coverage in the Western Isles.
Mr MacNeill added: “I am also sending a signal to the mobile network companies that this is something I intend to pursue over the next couple of years to ensure the islands see the promised improvements in mobile telephony.”
Angus MacNeil urges improved mobile phone coverage
15 April 2015