The Electronic Communications Code gives powers to telecoms operators to acquire rights over private land to install their apparatus for the purpose of providing their network. In order to impose rights against a reluctant landowner, the operator must establish that the prejudice caused to the landowner by the imposition of those rights can be adequately
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Interim Code rights – the Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill
What are interim Code rights? Operators have been having issues in relation to non-responsive owners of multi-let buildings where the Operator’s customer occupies part of the building as a tenant. This means that there is often a delay in the tenant of those multi-let buildings getting internet services. In order to tackle this issue the
Telecoms operators do not have a choice between the Code and the 1954 Act on renewal of rights
The Upper Tribunal has considered for the first time the relationship between the new Electronic Communications Code and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, ruling that an operator in occupation under a lease protected by the 1954 Act is not entitled to ask the Tribunal to impose Code rights. The new Code came into force
Motive Matters … Can land owners rely on redevelopment plans to resist Code rights?
It has been almost 18 months since the new Electronic Communications Code changed the legal landscape for telecoms operators and land owners. At its core, the Code is a framework for operators to obtain rights to install their apparatus on private land. The policy behind the Code is to improve our communications infrastructure so that