Mobile phone coverage spreads to remote areas

According to recently collected data by the state-run Office of Electronic Communications (UKE), over 200 localities still lack coverage, a miserable state of affairs for potential mobile phone and broadband users.

UKE is now working to bring coverage to some 115 destinations – mostly rural – thus allowing over 320,000 residents to make use of modern technologies.

“This time, the map of black spots was filled in not by officials, but by locals who came forward themselves to notify about places without coverage,” says Pawel Dziubak, a spokesman for UKE.

The institution has now signed a contract with mobile phone operators to raise a series of new masts.

In return for building the masts, the operators will be granted favourable by UKE.

It is hoped that construction of the masts will be completed by the middle of 2012, thus bringing thousands of frustrated customers into the fold. (nh)