EE extends 4G coverage to 500 rural areas

UK operator EE served up 4G to an additional rural 500 locations over past year, covering over 420 square miles.
Following the extension, EE says it intends to hook up another 900 areas to its 4G network by 2024, in what it calls its Shared Rural Network programme, as it reaches for 95% coverage. In total, EE boasts it has upgraded 1362 sites since this programme began in March 2020.
There is an effort to tie this rollout in particular to road coverage over the Christmas period – and while