5G - Delayed

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surveyor

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Monday 20th May 2019
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The roll out of 5G is an interesting time and not only because of Huawei related issues.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/19...

Essentially Operators are proposing to their landlords that their rents should fall from, in the case of London rooftops £10-15k per year to £50. Obviously landlords are not falling over themselves to have the inconvenience of this, and the vast proportion of cases are stalled with a small number going to Lands Tribunals. The few judgments that have been made, have mostly been appealed with the hearings some time off...

It seems that they are also have ago at Local Authorities to grab control of the lampposts for peanuts.

Obviously there is some legal background to all of this - but essentially 5G is looking problematic - especially if Huawei base stations are out for 5G - it is likely that the operators would have to swap out a fair amount of 4G kit also...


surveyor

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nah - the operators aren't interested in the 'not' spots. Their latest fudge is to create a combined business to build masts (or not)to cover these, on the condition that the obligation to do so is removed from the 5G auctions...

surveyor

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simonrockman said:
This has been rumbling for many years. I wrote a blog piece on it a year ago. The Communications Code is far too biased in favour of landlords.
Not really... Landlords would argue it's gone the other way. The code changed at the end of December 2017.

surveyor

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Burwood said:
The coverage in the UK is worse than many Eastern European countries.We get mugged for sure. I get no signal at all, 15 miles from Guildford.

The new Regs are supposed to be, if any provider bids for a 5G license then they must get decent coverage or face fines. But often the fines are not large enough to encourage compliance. Broadband is hit and miss. On a good day i'll get 20mbs on a bad say it's as slow as a wet week.
They are trying a fudge to get rid of that annoying condition