£25m push to boost mobile connectivity in ‘notspots’

More than a dozen areas in Scotland with no access to 4G coverage Scotland have been identified in a £25 million project to improve mobile connectivity.

The Scottish 4G Infill programme will pay for new mobile masts in 4G “notspots”.

The majority of the initial 16 sites identified are in the Highlands and islands, and include one each on Orkney, Shetland, Skye, and the Applecross peninsula, two in the Western Isles and one in Sutherland.

Other notspots include at least two in Argyll and Bute, two in Aberdeenshire, one each in Dumfries and Galloway, East Lothian and the Borders.

The Scottish Government said the final sites would be agreed as part of the procurement process and around 60 to 70 locations are expected to have improved coverage by the end of the project.