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Review of the Access to Infrastructure Regulations - call for evidence

The UK government has now responded to the open Call for Evidence regarding the Review of the Access to Infrastructure Regulations.

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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The government ran an open call for evidence for the UK government’s review of the Access to Infrastructure Regulations. The call for evidence ran for 12 weeks, ending on 4 September 2020.

The review will assess if there are improvements that could be made to the regulations to further boost investment in infrastructure, and encourage the use of infrastructure sharing to deploy telecoms networks. Our understanding is that to date there has been limited use of the ATI Regulations, and we are keen to understand the reasons why network providers in the UK appear not to be making more use of them.

The government response sets out the government’s conclusions following the call for evidence and the proposed next steps. Generally, the government found that the Regulations are broadly appropriate, and that at present there is limited industry demand for large scale reform. However, the government did identify some areas where some smaller amendments around timescales and enforcement powers, and some clarifications to the scope of the Regulations may improve their use.

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Published 12 June 2020
Last updated 24 November 2021 + show all updates
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