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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has launched a consultation on whether to make changes to the law around land and digital infrastructure.
It covers the legal framework for building and maintaining the structure on private and public land, influencing the placing of phone masts and broadband cabinets, and is aimed at providing more homes with improved internet and mobile coverage.
The consultation is exploring whether changes to the UK’s Electronic Communications Code, last reformed in 2017, are needed to encourage faster and more collaborative negotiations between landowners and telecoms providers. It is also looking at the possibilities for improving existing infrastructure.
What do we want? Better coverage! How do we want it? Without actual infrastructure
Matthew Hughes Wed 27 Jan 2021 // 16:25 UTC Share
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The UK government is looking to reform the laws governing how communications equipment is deployed and managed, in an effort to speed up the rollout of gigabit-capable connections.
A new consultation, opened today by Minister for Digital Infrastructure Matt Warman, will look at three problem areas: issues related to obtaining and exercising “code agreements,” which grant rights to maintain and deploy hardware on land belonging to a third-party; rights to upgrade and share existing equipment; and the lack of clarity surrounding what happens when a time-limited code agreement ends.
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