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“...the proposed combination with Three UK will mean we have the scale to accelerate investment to bring benefits to businesses and consumers sooner rather than later. We have committed to £11 billion ($13.7 billion) of investment to deliver 5G Standalone across the UK,” said Ahmed Essam, CEO of Vodafone UK, in a statement.

Four in five constituencies in Devon, Somerset and Cornwall could be left behind by the digital divide if 5G is not rolled out quickly to rural areas

Four in five constituencies in Devon, Somerset and Cornwall could be left behind by the digital divide if 5G is not rolled out quickly to rural areas

Four in five constituencies in Devon, Somerset and Cornwall could be left behind by the digital divide if 5G is not rolled out quickly to rural areas

Four in five constituencies in Devon, Somerset and Cornwall could be left behind by the digital divide if 5G is not rolled out quickly to rural areas

MailOnline went to speak to residents in Wells, Somerset, the Cynon Valley in South Wales and the Lake District in Cumbria to learn what life is like in these digitally-deprived areas.

UK operator’s Connecting the Countryside study finds as many as seven in 10 rural deprived areas have poor mobile coverage and nearly half are total 5G notspots.

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EXCLUSIVE: The Connecting the Countryside report revealed a stark digital divide between rural and urban areas that is continuing to get wider,

The “digital divide” between urban and rural areas has been widening, with nearly half of rural deprived areas classed as 5G ‘not-spots’ compared to just 2.7 per cent in urban areas, Vodafone has said.