Arqiva who specialise in telecommunications will receive capital funding to develop and increase mobile telecoms coverage in the U.K.

The funding of £150 million comes as the government moves forward with its Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP), in a bid to extend mobile telecoms coverage in remote areas and “provide hundreds of millions of pounds of economic benefits as well as resulting in positive social impacts, such as increased safety and security in terms of emergency response," according to a government release.

Telecoms operators including EE, Telefonica, Vodafone and Three will be involved in the operation of the new framework and in the funding of network infrastructure.

The mobile infrastructure expansion is set to be constructed by a deadline of 2015 with Arqiva currently identifying viable sites for new infrastructure.

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