SNOWDONIA National Park Authority is to carry out a study on how much of its surface area is a mobile “not spot” in a bid to improve coverage.

The authority has approved a Corporate Plan for 2018/19, setting out some of its objectives for the coming year. As part of these aims, bosses have agreed to carry out a study to find out how much of the national park receives little or no mobile coverage.

Once this study is complete, the intention is that at least emergency calls can be made across a more widespread area of the park’s 823 square miles.

Emergency calls to 999 numbers can be made by users of any mobile network, as long as they are within range of at least one network operator mast.

As part of the park’s proposals, year-on-year improvement targets will then be set and reviewed on an annual basis.

Last year, the national park rejected proposals for phone masts disguised as trees so that they could blend in with the natural landscape.

However, the authority has already confirmed that it will ask mobile firms to share masts in order to limit the impact on the environment.

Read the full story in this Thursday’s north editions of the Cambrian News