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Thanks to Richard T for this update.

O2 suggest there may be intermittent outages today as maintenance work is carried out (and yesterday).

Meanwhile, Derbyshire Dales MP John Whitby  who has taken up the village cause after some 13 weeks of outage at the local mast  has written to the Telecoms Minister for a meeting to discuss Parwich and other issues in his constituency with specific questions about the Government’s plans on mobile signal in rural areas. 

These include:

• Whether the Department for Science Innovation and Tech would be willing to explore a requirement for mobile network providers to publish publicly an incident response plan for remote and rural areas which should include expected timescales, communication protocols with affected communities, and escalation mechanisms

• How the Department is working with Ofcom, to ensure that compensation mechanisms and remedial action for vulnerable residents in rural communities are adequate, clear to navigate, and enforced.