Notes to editors:
On 9 January 2015, the Government introduced proposed amendments to the Infrastructure Bill that would replace the Electronic Communications Code and would substantially implement our recommendations of the Law Commission which reviewed the code in 2012. At the time the NFU made a detailed response to the code which operated to regulate infrastructure forming networks which support broadband, mobile phone and telephone, cable television and landlines. The changed regulation would have impacted on the private property rights between landowners and electronic communications providers and the NFU had concerns about three key aspect of the code with respect of no additional value (or rent) being payable to a landowner where additional apparatus and site sharing occurs.