Anger as phone mast rents cut

Property owners say they face cuts of up to 99% to the rent they charge telecoms firms to erect phone masts.
If the Government's Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill passes its final stages in the House of Lords on Wednesday, it will allow mast owners to bypass the Land Tribunal system that adjudicated rents.
The Government says its new rental pricing regulations will let mobile phone firms invest in infrastructure while paying landlords a fair price. But farmers, councils, churches and community groups say they are being hit hard.
For example, Swindon Council lost 93% of its income from four sites - with the annual rent for one cut from £9,500 a year to just 1p. But the Government said: "We want to make sure people have better mobile signal and broadband.
'Pricing for the right to install telecoms kit is now more closely aligned to utilities such as water, electricity and gas.'