CHAPTER VI : Provision of mobile radio network infrastructure

The amount of rent payable by operators holding a frequency use authorisation to local authorities or their groupings for the provision of infrastructure intended to support mobile telecommunications networks open to the public is determined under the conditions laid down in Articles R. 1426-2 to R. 1426-4: 1° In areas identified pursuant to III of article 52 of law no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 for confidence in the digital…

Operators benefiting from the provision of infrastructures mentioned in Article R. 1426-1 shall communicate, before 30 June each year, to the Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des postes the amounts, calculated at national level according to methods defined by this Authority, of revenues and costs, excluding rents, related to the operation of these infrastructures during the previous calendar year. For each operator, the rents calculated at national level…

An order issued by the minister responsible for electronic communications on a proposal from the Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des postes shall set the rental charges for each operator for the previous calendar year for the infrastructures referred to in Article R. 1426-1. The tariff applicable to each operator is identical for each infrastructure leased and operated exclusively by it. Where an infrastructure is operated by several…

Rents due in respect of each calendar year are payable within fifteen days of publication of the order provided for in article R. 1426-3.