Telecommunications

Our highly ranked Telecoms Team acts for landowners on a national scale advising on telecom-related issues.

Led by James Robinson, a specialist with a wealth of experience in the telecoms field, the team’s work covers all aspects of property-related telecoms advice, both transactional and contentious.

Mast evictions and lease agreements are ley areas of specialism, and the team works closely with specialist surveyors to provide a complete advisory service.   

Our experience and client base

We act exclusively for landowners and offer our services to a full range of clients – from the UK’s largest developers to farmers and other individual landowners – and have experience of agreeing lease as well as litigating against all the major phone companies.

The team’s work involves arranging the removal of mast sites across the country to facilitate redevelopment, advising on the validity of break notices relating to decommissioning of mast sites, dealing with lease and wayleave agreements, and advising on Upper Tribunal Land Chamber cases pursuant to the Electronic Communications Code.

Our expertise

  • Phone mast lease renewals
  • Phone mast access surveys
  • Phone mast evictions
  • Broadband wayleaves

Birketts have provided us with great industry knowledge in this specialised area and advised us on some complex telecoms matters, the service provided has been first class.

Legal 500 [UK 2023]

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