Bigger and taller masts lined up to improve rural phone signal

Scores of super masts could be built across Britain to get rid of mobile phone blind spots

Scores of taller phone masts could be built across the British countryside as part of government plans to eliminate mobile reception blind spots.

The digital secretary, Nicky Morgan, said she wanted to shake up planning restrictions to allow mobile phone networks to build ground-based masts exceeding the current rules prohibiting structures over 25 metres on public land.