Policy documents matter—but they need to be tested against what people experience in homes, tenements, and rural communities.
Scottish Government digital and connectivity materials set direction for public investment and partnership with industry. Local authorities and community organisations often see the gaps first: patchy mobile coverage, complex voucher processes, or costs that remain out of reach.
Our role as a campaign is to amplify community questions, signpost official programmes, and push for outcomes that are easy to understand and fair to access.
Vodafone withdrew its £12/month Essentials tariff, raising its entry price to £20. Virgin Media's Essential Broadband at £12.50 is now the lowest verified social tariff on the market — a reminder that these deals and their prices shift, so it's worth checking before you apply.
The government-backed Shared Rural Network has switched on its 140th mobile mast, with 49 now live in Scotland — including a second site on Islay that restores signal from all four networks to an area that previously had none.
The government-backed Shared Rural Network switched on its 50th mobile mast in Scotland on the remote Ardnamurchan peninsula, extending all-four-operator 4G coverage across more than 1,900 square kilometres of rural Scotland — an area larger than Edinburgh and Glasgow combined.
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