Who owns these assets, how is access granted, and does The Cloud pay rent?
Aside from the CCTV poles, which belong to the City of London Police, the City of London Corporation owns the street furniture. We are providing the Cloud with an exclusivity agreement that says no other provider can put up wireless-broadband equipment. The City will be taking some sort of revenue share, but it’s minimal. There is no rent. A lot of the furniture hasn’t been acceptable, so we’ve actually had to change and modify some of it. We’ve steered clear of mounting equipment on buildings because we can’t control whether they’re going to be redeveloped or whether we can put up an AP. In areas where there is no available street furniture, we have had to bear in mind that we’re trying to stop additional clutter on these streets, and therefore we’re trying to modify some of the current poles that we have in place rather than install new poles. “One Way” or “No Entry” signs that are 3 meters high might be replaced with a pole that is 6 meters. Q. To what extent will the network be ava
