David MacDonald is the Head of Property & Estates at CTIL. The document provides a history of mobile communications in the UK from 1984 to present. It discusses the opportunity to reset relationships between wireless infrastructure providers, operators, landowners, and government by pooling their common interests to enable network investment, 5G, digital infrastructure, and a connected society. CTIL's landlord engagement programme aims to break cycles of behavior between these groups and facilitate productive policy and culture change.
2. Serving the Digital Economy and a Connected Society
• Pooling industry’s common interests
• Working together and starting a new conversation
3. 1984 1991 2000 2007 2009 2010
Electronic
Communications
Code:
Telecommunicatio
ns Act 1984
1985
Cellnet &
Racal –
Vodafone
awarded
1st
generation
licences
Mercury One
2 One &
Orange enter
the market
by award of
2G licences
The auction of 3G
licences earns exchequer
£22.5bn
• H3G
• Vodafone
• One2One
• Orange
• Cellnet
MBNL established
50/50 JV between
T-Mobile & H3G
2012 20132015 2016
Cornerstone
established
Site Share
vehicle for
Vodafone & O2
Merger of
Orange &
T-Mobile
CTIL
established:
50/50 JV
Vodafone
and
Telefonica
4G Licences
awarded to
• EE
• H3G
• Telefonica
• Vodafone
• BT
Licence
variation to
achieve 90%
geographic
coverage of the
UK for voice
calls by Dec
Digital
Economy Bill:
Proposed
Reform of
Electronic
Communication
s Code
HistoryofMobileCommunicationsintheUK
5. OpportunitytoPresstheResetButton
• “The ambition of the Digital Economy Bill is for Britain to remain at the
forefront of the global 21st century economy, to:-
• Empower consumers by providing better connectivity to digital networks
• Enable the building of world-class digital infrastructure
• Enable better public services using digital technologies”
