Around two-thirds of UK Type-2 public chargers sit in locations where mobile coverage from all four networks is inadequate. NetworkUX surveys every candidate site across every UK operator before you install — so you choose the right SIM per site, or know not to deploy there at all.
Public charge points need mobile connectivity to authenticate users, take payment, report status to back-office systems, push firmware, and let drivers call for support. Without coverage on a network your SIM can reach, the charger doesn’t earn revenue and doesn’t serve drivers — for up to 15 years of concession.
Pre-deployment validation is, in expected-value terms, very cheap insurance against post-commissioning connectivity failures — which cost hundreds of pounds per site to remediate and create SLA exposure under LEVI concession contracts.
Your SIM provider can’t verify the networks they don’t serve. Your back-office monitoring sees failures after the fact. NetworkUX gives you ground-truth measurement, across every UK network, before the chargers ship.
A CPO whose SIM provider is on one network can’t easily verify the others. NetworkUX tests EE, Vodafone, VMO2 and Three simultaneously, so you pick the right network per site — or choose a roaming SIM with the data to justify it. Resolved to 10-metre hexagons — the actual kerbside location of the charger, not “your borough”.
A high-street site with great coverage at 09:00 can be unusable at 18:00 when everyone gets home and tries to charge. NetworkUX surfaces capacity not-spots — the failures that operator-published maps never show.
Attach a NetworkUX connectivity assessment to your LEVI concession bid. Councils want to know you’ve done the due diligence — an independent survey from NetworkUX makes your bid materially more credible than competitors’.
From single-site spot checks to concession-wide rollouts — priced per site, no bespoke quoting required for standard surveys.
Survey every candidate site before installation. Report tells you which networks work, when, and what action (alternate SIM, no-deploy) is needed.
Already deployed and seeing back-office failures? NetworkUX surveys the live estate, pinpoints the underperformers, and quantifies the gap by operator and time of day.
Plan a multi-thousand-site LEVI concession with confidence. Survey the council area, identify the commercially-viable sub-zones, and submit a defensible bid response.
PDF connectivity assessments per site, plus exportable raw data (KML, shapefile, JSON, CSV) for your GIS and asset management systems.
Four direct quotes from three live UK council programmes — Westminster City Council, Manchester City Council and the Tees Valley Combined Authority (plus one of its constituent councils).
“The conversation with mobile-network operators has moved on a lot more. We know where the problem areas are. We can be constructive and collaborative about how we might be able to help them — our aim is to improve the user and visitor experience of people coming to Westminster.”
“Overall, the experience of working with the team at NetworkUX and the product delivered was exceptional in quality and delivery. I would recommend NetworkUX to any party interested in gathering data on mobile capacity.”
“Ever wondered why your apps won’t load despite full bars on your phone? That’s exactly what our new Mobile Performance Map is here to solve. It’s already highlighting where coverage is strong — and where it needs to improve — so we can work with providers to fill the gaps and make sure people get the service they pay for.”
“We’re using our bin wagons to sort more than just our rubbish — we’re sorting rubbish signal out, too. No more guesswork — this will give us hard evidence of problems people who have poor signal know only too well, and arm us to go to providers and government to get it sorted.”
The LEVI fund is delivering on-street public charging at scale across England. Connectivity is the silent risk inside every concession. NetworkUX makes it visible — and de-risks it.
Differentiate from competing CPOs by attaching independent NetworkUX evidence to your bid. Show the council you’ve assessed connectivity at the candidate sites they care about.
For each award, validate every candidate site before installation. Reduce post-commissioning truck-rolls and back-office support load.
Survey live sites at 6- or 12-month intervals. Flag connectivity decay before it becomes an SLA breach or a council complaint.
NetworkUX visualises every network at the same location at the same time. Two examples of resident-facing checker output we’ve produced for UK councils.
Send us a candidate site you’re about to commission. We’ll survey it across all four UK networks and send back a connectivity assessment within two weeks — on us. If it’s useful, we’ll talk about how to scale.
Charge-point connectivity surveys are one of the strongest short-to-medium-term revenue streams for new NetworkUX partners. Every CPO has hundreds of candidate sites and every site is a potential commission. No telecoms background needed.
