Telecommunications

Our specialist Telecommunication Solicitors are able to provide you with comprehensive advice on a range of matters, as well as draft specific telecoms related documents, including:

• Confidentiality agreements;
• Website terms and conditions;
• Customer and end user terms and conditions;
• Master service agreements;
• Supply agreements;
• Reseller agreements; and
• Co-location agreements.

For those clients who already have their own documents, we provide a contract review service.  As part of this service we will provide you with a report on your suite of documents and advice on how they may be improved to best protect your business interests

As part of our telecommunications offering, we also advise on the following:

• Data Protection (GDPR), Data Retention and Freedom of Information Act Matters;
• Buying and Selling Telecommunication Businesses
• Providing Advice on Shareholder Protection and Shareholder’s Agreements; and
• Mobile Phone Mast Leases and Commercial Contracts.

Data Protection (GDPR), Data Retention and Freedom of Information Act Matters

In England and Wales, individuals have a right to control how personal data or information is used, stored and communicated.

We advise companies of all sizes on privacy issues and data protection, including how to handle customer information and how to seek consents and permissions through online platforms as well as commercial and customer contracts. We will work with you (or your DPO) to ensure that you are operating in compliance with the Data Protection legislation (including GDPR) and associated legislation.

We can also provide you with a framework of contract protections, short term crisis management advice and long term data protection strategies, including providing data protection advice on:

• Compliance issues under the Data Protection Legislation (including GDPR);
• Data Processing and Data Sharing;
• Internal and external policies and Privacy Notices;
• Freedom of Information Act requests;
• Direct Marketing;
• Breaches of data security.
• Website terms and conditions;

Buying and Selling Telecommunication Businesses

Our Corporate Commercial team have a wealth of experience working with businesses of all sizes. Whether you are looking to expand, develop or dispose of, or invest in a telecommunications business, our specialist Corporate Commercial team can help you to get it where you want it to be.

We have a successful track record in advising owner managed businesses, SMEs and larger companies (including PLCs) on corporate, financial, transactional and organisational issues.

Providing Advice on Shareholder Protection and Shareholder’s Agreements

We advise clients across all sectors on the merits of having a Shareholders’ Agreement.  In a rapidly growing and changing industry, such as telecommunications, it is even more important to have a Shareholders’ Agreement in place to allow business owners to regulate their relationship with each other, the company and its directors.

A Shareholders’ Agreement not only helps to mitigate against costly and potentially damaging shareholder disputes, should they arise, it also structures shareholder exits and business sales should the shareholders wish to sell the company or its business in the future.

Mobile Phone Mast Leases and Commercial Contracts

Many of our Agricultural and Commercial Property clients are approached by mobile phone mast operators with requests and proposals to place mobile phone masts on their land to help improve the quality of mobile phone signals as well as 3G and 4G coverage in the UK.

Unlike standard commercial contracts and leases, telecommunication agreements can be complicated and can place a range of specific, and sometimes onerous, conditions on landowners. Mast operators are also granted certain rights under the Electronic Communications Code. It is, therefore, vital that you have peace of mind that your rights and interests are protected.

Our Commercial and Property teams can help you understand telecoms lease agreements and assist you with the negotiation of the necessary contracts associated with the operation and management of masts and mast sites.

We can assist you with negotiating:

• Heads of Terms;
• Management Contracts;
• Leases;
• Lease Renewals; and
• Assignments.

If you already have a mobile phone mast on your land, it is advisable to revisit the terms of your agreements and leases at regular intervals to ensure that you are receiving fair and current market rates as well as the protection you require to allow you to deal with your property in the way you want to in the future.  The commercial contracts and leases concerning older masts, and mast sites, can be significantly out of date, often leaving landowners with relatively low rental incomes.

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