The UK’s 5G rollout is hitting a significant regulatory speed bump.

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The UK is 37th in the world for 5G
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quality, and it's about to get worse for
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land owners. If you think your 5G signal
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is bad now, it's about to get a whole
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lot more complicated. The government is
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pushing through new legislation that
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allows mobile operators to slash the
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rent they pay to land owners for phone
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masks by up to 90%. We're talking about
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15,000 existing sites, many of them on
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land owned by farmers, schools, and
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small businesses, being dragged into a
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new payment regime this April. The
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industry says this frees up cash to
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finally fix our 5G rollout, but land
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owners are hitting back. The National
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Farmers Union is warning that one in
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three land owners might now refuse to
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host mass altogether. Is cutting the
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incentive to host the tech really the
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best way to get us connected? Tell us,
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would you keep a mask on your property
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if the rent dropped from thousands of
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pounds to just a few hundred?

The UK’s 5G rollout is hitting a significant regulatory speed bump.

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The UK’s 5G rollout is hitting a significant regulatory speed bump.

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