George Gibson, from Streetwave, said phone and internet access was one of the most important forms of infrastructure, but it had not been “mapped out” like roads and railways.<\/p>\n
“We don’t understand which of our communities are suffering from digital exclusion,” he said.<\/p>\n
He added that bin lorries were ideal for the project because as they already had to drive to every residential and commercial property in the region.<\/p>\n
Similar projects have been carried out in places including Norfolk<\/a>, Dorset<\/a> and Gloucestershire<\/a>.<\/p>\n South Yorkshire’s Mayor Oliver Coppard said: “Digital connectivity isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity, whether it’s accessing public services, running a business or just staying in touch with friends and family.<\/p>\n “Too many people in South Yorkshire are still stuck in mobile ‘not spots’ where coverage is patchy or non-existent.<\/p>\n “That’s why it’s important this project is giving us the data we need to change, to make sure everyone in South Yorkshire can get the signal they need, wherever they live.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Gibson, from Streetwave, said phone and internet access was one of the most important forms of infrastructure,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115008574778971215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}