Part of 2. Questions to the Leader of the House – in the Senedd at 2:22 pm on 28 February 2018.
Well, the big issue always in Wales is the difficulty of where the population is, and this is a problem for all of these sorts of services, and it's why we have a constant argument with the UK Government about what the proportional coverage should be. And that's because, as I'm sure I've expressed in this Chamber very often, everybody in Wales is spread out into every nook and cranny of Wales. So, we miss out quite large sections of the population, percentage-wise, if we concentrate on the high-population coverage areas. So, we have that constant conversation with them, and the difficulty is—it's exactly the same for much of the rest of the mobile coverage—we need a lot more masts in Wales to get the service out there. So, what we've been trying to do is make the UK understand that Wales has a specific issue and that we need a specific solution for it. It's not done through the broadband infrastructure, it's done through the broadcasting infrastructure. However, of course, you can pick up digital radio through the internet if you want to, and so our digital roll-out in terms of broadband will assist, but we're nevertheless insisting that the coverage should be good enough to cover the geographical spread of Wales as well as its population base.