{"id":332,"date":"2014-07-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.johnwhittingdale.co.uk\/?p=332"},"modified":"2021-08-23T08:54:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T08:54:26","slug":"vodafone-coverage-in-maldon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone coverage in Maldon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"anchor\" name=\"st_o40\"><\/a><a class=\"anchor\" name=\"14070342000086\"><\/a><a class=\"anchor\" name=\"140703-0001.htm_spnew35\"><\/a><a class=\"anchor\" name=\"14070342000536\"><\/a><strong><strong>Mr John Whittingdale<\/strong> (Maldon) (Con):<\/strong> May I  commend my right hon. Friend on his efforts to extend mobile coverage, but is he  aware that many of my constituents have been without any mobile coverage for  nearly three weeks due to Vodafone having to remove a mast from premises that  the landlord required it to vacate? Will he consider looking at the electronic  communications code to see whether it can be strengthened to give the same sorts  of rights that already exist for other utilities, such as water and  electricity?<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Sajid Javid)<\/strong><strong style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">:<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\"> I was not aware of that particular  issue in my hon. Friend\u2019s constituency, but now he has raised it I will  certainly look into it and see whether we can help. The electronic  communications code is a very important issue and I am looking into it right  now, because I agree that it was set up for a different age and there need to be  significant changes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon) (Con): May I commend my right hon. Friend on his efforts to extend mobile coverage, but is he aware that many of my constituents have been without any mobile coverage for nearly three weeks due to Vodafone having to remove a mast from premises that the landlord required it to vacate? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}