If you host mobile infrastructure, this affects you — anywhere you’re located.
Policy reforms have cut rents as much as 90%, increased disputes, and broken trust between operators and landlords. This site helps you understand what’s changed — and add your voice. Join our motion for Fair Land Valuation
What You Need to Know
The most important changes shaping agreements, income, and cooperation for all mobile infrastructure hosts, in both rural and urban environments.
What’s Happening
Policy changes since 2017 reduced mast rents, increased disputes, and weakened cooperation between operators and landlords. The Government has passed a new regulation that will expand that policy risks to all leases signed before 2017 deepening the problem. Learn More
Who This Affects
Farmers, rural landowners, building owners, commercial property managers, city councils, and community groups, anyone hosting mobile infrastructure or relying on mast income, regardless of location.
Why Your Experience Matters
Policymakers need evidence of the impact this policy is having. Sharing your story helps show how these changes will affect livelihoods, generate land scarcity for mobile networks and affect capacity and coverage across the UK, strengthening the case for land valuation reform.
What Landowners Are Seeing Across the UK
A national survey of over 500 mast hosts reveals a growing crisis in income, cooperation, and confidence.
From farmers and city councils to schools, sports clubs, churches, and charities, landlord
A significant number of site providers are considering walking away — connectivity will suffer… but landowners do not feel listened to.
The latest Farmdex report indicates that for many farmers, diversification is seen as essential to protecting their future financial prospects. A significant proportion of the farmers surveyed (67%) have already diversified their farming operations.
However, installing mobile infrastructure is not rated among the top diversification priorities
Types of Diversification Undertaken / Intended
Data collated by Mobile UK revealed that around 7% of rooftop sites across London, crucial for network provision, are out of action at any one time due to Notices to Quit (NTQs). There are hugely competing land uses that affect infrastructure and networks, like tall building developments and alternative rooftop uses.
What the Press Is Reporting?
National, regional and business outlets are shining a light on how current policies are affecting mast hosts, rural and urban communities, and the UK’s mobile connectivity rollout. Coverage continues to grow as more landowners speak out.
Brits have little choice but to walk away
Daily Express
Warning to reverse damaging 5G changes
The Herald
Rent cuts risk Britain’s 5G rollout
Scottish Farmer
Mast rents slashed by up to 90 percent
Business Matters
Landowners consider abandoning contracts
Farmers Weekly
Welsh blackspots could worsen
Pembrokeshire Herald
See the Full Story
Browse national and industry reporting on rent cuts, disputes, and the impact on connectivity.
We believe in backing insights with real data, not opinions alone.
A Fair Valuation is Still Possible
A different approach exists. Fair land valuation does not mean excessive rents or blocking connectivity. It means recognising alternative uses of land and rooftops, respecting existing agreements, and encouraging cooperation rather than compulsion.
A more balanced model would reflect site type, location and strategic importance, allow for consensual negotiation, and reduce the need for costly legal disputes. This would restore trust, keep land available for mobile networks, and support long-term investment in coverage and capacity.
Some infrastructure providers already work this way. Icon Tower, for example, develops sites through consensual agreements relying on collaboration rather than compulsion.
Stories Behind the Statistics
PARLIAMENT ACTION ON POOR MOBILE CONNECTIVITY
Do you host a mobile mast on your land or property?
If you’ve faced rent reductions, legal disputes, or difficulty renewing your lease, your experience matters.
Sharing your story helps policymakers, journalists, and industry leaders understand the real human and financial impact of recent changes and how this may impact the expansion and quality of mobile connectivity across the UK.
All submissions are reviewed before publication. Stories that meet editorial standards may appear on this site to help build a nationwide picture of what’s happening on the ground.
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