Mobile Network Rationalisation – Everything Everywhere, T-Mobile, Orange and Hutchison 3G

If you have mobile phone installations on your sites will be aware of the ongoing consolidation in the industry to save costs. I attended the RICS Telecoms Conference on Tuesday 16th where there was a major presentation on the consolidation/integration of Hutchison 3G (H3G), T-Mobile and Orange. The consolidation of H3G and T-Mobile is now effectively completed (they have carried out 12,000 out of their 12,400 planned consolidations and 5,300 of their 5,700 planned deactivations) so you are unlikely to receive any more break notices for these company’s sites for the time being (though some clients still have issues with purported break notices they have received in the past! However, there is another round of rationalisation on the way. Orange and T-Mobile are now owned by a joint venture company, Everything Everywhere, and their networks are being integrated into one. The target is a single network of 18,000 sites. To achieve this they plan to decommission 9,000 sites. It will be a few months before the planning work is complete. If you have them as tenants, especially if there are both Orange and T-Mobile on the same rooftop, you may well hear from them sometime in 2011. An important KPI for them is reliable 24/7 access, so if you have scope to improve access arrangements this may be a cost-effective way to reduce the chances of them exiting your site.

John Woodhouse - Associate
jwoodhouse@dohertybaines.com

More Segro Lettings

Greenford Park, Greenford, UB6

Unit 9 (13,469 sq ft) has been let to Stephen Morris Shipping for a term of 10 years.

Premier Park, Park Royal, NW10

Unit 15 (4,650 sq ft) has been let to Fareshare for a term of 10 years.

dohertybaines were acting for Segro.

For further information, please contact Michael Haines on
020 7355 3033
mhaines@dohertybaines.com

Park Royal Personality of the Year Award

dohertybaines are delighted to be sponsoring the first Park Royal Personality of the Year Award! The Award will be given to the winning person at the Park Royal Partnership Annual Dinner on the 2nd December. Other corporate awards on the night are sponsored by SEGRO and HSBC but dohertybaines are sponsoring the only award to an individual. Watch this space for details on the winner....!!

Fiona Kelly
Associate
fkelly@dohertybaines.com