London's network infrastructure planning rules could be losing the city £2.7 billion a year in economic output
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A 5-year mast relocation cycle with only 18 months’ notice is what AI-era infrastructure friction looks like — planning rules throttling bandwidth and latency. If your product assumes dense, reliable mobile or edge connectivity, treat local permitting and urban policy as a core dependency, not an externality.
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