Biggart Baillie Solicitors



Sectors

Telecoms

The licenses for 'next-generation' mobile phone services sold by the UK government in the year 2000 saw the construction of an entire new telecommunications infrastructure across the UK. The successful bidders have built a new network of masts and other communication infrastructure to provide the promised high-speed telephone and data services to their subscribers.

Change hasn’t just been legislative.  The technology continues to evolve. 

No-one pays £22 billion to provide a mobile phone service without wanting the best advice on all fronts for the technology roll-out. Biggart Baillie were instructed to handle the property aspects of the 3G-infrastructure roll-out across Scotland on the basis of our track record in the telecoms sector. We haven’t just kept up-to-date with the Communications Act; we have also been at the cutting edge of implementing novel technologies.

Today, we now have more than a decade of experience in this fast-moving field. Our telecoms team has genuine in-depth hard-won knowledge of the property issues surrounding the provision of sites; the negotiation of global and bespoke site-sharing agreements and the impact and exercise of code powers.

Biggart Baillie handled all the legal agreements for the Rural Broadband Project sponsored by Scottish Enterprise and pioneered in the Borders to bring high-speed wireless broadband to communities too remote for expensive ADSL or ISDN services.

So whether you are a telecoms company looking to extend or expand infrastructure, or the owner of land looking to host a mast or equipment, Biggart Baillie are available to meet all your needs.


Contacts for Telecoms

Wayne Lawrence

Wayne Lawrence
Partner, Edinburgh

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