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<p>In delivering the Emergency Services Network (ESN), the mobile network operator
EE will deliver up to 291 new mast sites. Government will deliver approximately 230
further sites (known as the “Extended Area Services” (EAS) sites) in the most remote
and rural areas of Great Britain.</p><p>For EAS sites, the principal objective is
to provide coverage to meet the needs of the emergency services, but the Home Office
is working with the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and DCMS to identify any
proposed mast locations which could improve mobile coverage in future, with a view
to ensuring these are built to a specification which could accommodate multiple operators.</p><p>EE
has indicated that it is delivering around 200 new sites in Scotland as part of ESN.
In addition there are 104 sites in Scotland that are being considered as part of the
Extended Area Services (EAS). Delivery of these sites is subject to planning permission
and the acquisition of land.<del class="ministerial"> There are currently no new sites
proposed in the constituency of Inverclyde, either by EE or the EAS as part of ESN.</del>
<ins class="ministerial">There are currently up to 25 new EE ESN sites proposed in
the constituency of Orkney and Shetland, and one EAS site as part of ESN.</ins></p>
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