Mobile Phone Coverage

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:36 pm on 23 January 2018.

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Photo of Mr Simon Thomas Mr Simon Thomas Plaid Cymru 1:36, 23 January 2018

(Translated)

Although you mention the importance of the availability of mobile phones, 4G has only just got to Mynydd Rhiw and the Llŷn peninsula. There are some areas that are gravely behind in rural Wales. One thing that's often forgotten is how important the mobile phone will be for automation on farms and robotics. It's coming to a point now that you can control farm machinery and other aspects through a telephone system and using the phone signal—not the phone itself but the signal. Will you ensure, therefore, that that's available as we leave the European Union—that that best technology is available in all parts of Wales, particularly for our farmers?