More than 1,000 sign up to Shropshire Star's mobile phone signal petition
More than 1,000 people have already signed the Shropshire Star's petition to get mobile phone signals improved in the county.
The petition was launched last Thursday and will be sent to the Government, demanding action be taken to tackle a problem that leaves large parts of the county in a black hole. It will also be copied to the main phone companies and the communications operator Ofcom.
Our campaign has the support of Shropshire Council, which will be placing a copy of the petition in all of its libraries.
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Meanwhile, a Shropshire estate agent said today that mobile phone blackspots are affecting the county's housing industry.
Dawn Clarke revealed that prospective home-owners or renters were ruling out moving to parts of the county because of concerns about the phone signal.
Ms Clarke, director at Nock Deighton estate agents, said mobile phone reception across Shropshire was now becoming a key issue for businesses in the housing market and was increasingly being the difference between a deal being successful or falling through.
"If the mobile phone reception is poor, it definitely affects the desirability of a property and we have had cases of people turning down rental properties because of bad signal," she said.
"We wholeheartedly support the Shropshire Star campaign to improve phone signal because it is a real issue and not only in the very rural areas. Some areas on the fringes of Telford are terrible for signal."
