Roll out of ESN is still underway in North Wales and the rest of Great Britain, both in the EE Primary Area and the Extended Area. As such, proportions of coverage provided by each area are subject to change.

Based on the current forecast coverage predications for Network rollout on Major and Minor roads, we anticipate that in the North Wales Police area, up to 89% will be provided by EE in the primary area, and up to a further 11% provided in the EAS area.

In delivering the Emergency Services Network (ESN), the mobile network operator EE is delivering up to 291 sites funded by the Programme and upgrading its entire existing network, including deploying 4G spectrum in rural areas. The Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) will deliver approximately 300 further sites (known as the “Extended Area Services” (EAS) sites) in the most remote and rural areas of Great Britain.

EE has indicated that they aim to provide commercial services from all the new sites that they are building for ESN and the EAS sites although this may be dependent on the backhaul technologies used at sites to connect the site to EE’s telecommunications system. Under the terms of the State Aid decision for ESN, any ESN site where EE offers a commercial service must be made available to the other UK mobile operators and interested parties to provide their own a service on an equal and non-discriminatory basis. EE has indicated that for all the sites they are building for ESN, they are providing detailed information to the mobile network operators on the locations once sites for new masts are legally acquired and planning permission has been granted. This includes additional sites that EE are funding as well as those funded by the Programme.

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. The proposed site locations have been shared with the Scottish and Welsh Governments. Planning applications due to be submitted throughout 2017 will confirm and make public the precise locations of these sites.

The Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme is forecast to spend £71.1m of investment costs, and £135.7m of operating costs, on providing additional rural coverage as part of its Extended Area Service for the 15 year life of the business case.

The Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme is forecast to spend £71.1m of investment costs, and £135.7m of operating costs, on providing additional rural coverage as part of its Extended Area Service for the 15 year life of the business case.

The information relating to EE funding can be found at Section II – ‘Object of the contract’ at point 11.2.1 in the following document::http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:26394-2016:TEXT:EN:HTML

The Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) will provide geographic coverage to 97% of the country (including the 90% required by the Regulator) by requiring the Mobile Services supplier to infill commercial coverage area and extend their network over sites provided by ESMCP’s Extended Area Services (EAS) project.

Listed below are the Parliamentary Constituencies that do not fall entirely within the 90% coverage (as required by the Regulator), and those that do not fall entirely within the 97% coverage (with a further 7% provided by ESN) are:

The Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) Mobile Services procurement attracted all national mobile network operators and on 13 November announced its intention to award a contract to EE. Subject to an application decision in the High Court on 8-9 December to lift the automatic suspension, following a challenge by one of the down-selected bidders, EE will be awarded the contract for Mobile Services.