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  • noun US A right to cross land.

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Examples

  • Fibre optic cable is itself now quite cheap - especially compared with copper, whose price has rocketed - but would-be providers of fibre-optic internet in rural areas face a double whammy: BT has agreements for locating its poles and ducts on many pieces of private land for very low rents known as "wayleave" which no private company could now match; and fibre-optic cable laid by new businesses attracts extremely high business rates per kilometre, compared with BT which pays a fraction of the rate, determined by the Valuation Office Agency.

    Row over BT access prices threatens Vaizey's plan for superfast broadband 2011

  • However, Ofcom's new regulations gave no reference to "wayleave", whereby BT is granted special permission by rural groups such as the National Farmers' Union and Countryside

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Five out of six farmers around Crosby Ravensworth have offered to forego wayleave charges and help dig trenches.

    How Cumbria's village halls are pioneering a hi-tech revolution | Rory Stewart 2011

  • Five out of six farmers around Crosby Ravensworth have offered to forego wayleave charges and help dig trenches.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • I apologize if the tone is rude, but a wayleave should take 6 weeks tops, not 6 months, and making appointments to install the telephone service and then not showing up is really not very cool, what kind of business can't deliver in scotland after 6 months ... i feel like i've been stood up royally and expensive like by some cheeky call center who's employees are all not responsible for the football inside the Computer CRM system.

    WN.com - Articles related to Service tax on housing complexes needs review: Reddy 2010

  • I apologize if the tone is rude, but a wayleave should take 6 weeks tops, not 6 months, and making appointments to install the telephone service and then not showing up is really not very cool, what kind of business can't deliver in scotland after 6 months ... i feel like i've been stood up royally and expensive like by some cheeky call center who's employees are all not responsible for the football inside the Computer CRM system.

    WN.com - Articles related to Service tax on housing complexes needs review: Reddy 2010

  • I apologize if the tone is rude, but a wayleave should take 6 weeks tops, not 6 months, and making appointments to install the telephone service and then not showing up is really not very cool, what kind of business can't deliver in scotland after 6 months ... i feel like i've been stood up royally and expensive like by some cheeky call center who's employees are all not responsible for the football inside the Computer CRM system.

    WN.com - Articles related to Service tax on housing complexes needs review: Reddy 2010

  • I apologize if the tone is rude, but a wayleave should take 6 weeks tops, not 6 months, and making appointments to install the telephone service and then not showing up is really not very cool, what kind of business can't deliver in scotland after 6 months ... i feel like i've been stood up royally and expensive like by some cheeky call center who's employees are all not responsible for the football inside the Computer CRM system.

    WN.com - Articles related to Service tax on housing complexes needs review: Reddy 2010

  • Another reason is that the order system presumes an order can only take maximum 6 weeks (the call center told me this - maybe i got it wrong, but obviously they've cancelled the order twice, so i believe that there are managers in the front office who are compensated by "Average Order Time" and this order was a boat anchor, not being completed as there was a delay whilst openreach applied for a wayleave.

    WN.com - Articles related to Service tax on housing complexes needs review: Reddy 2010

  • Another reason is that the order system presumes an order can only take maximum 6 weeks (the call center told me this - maybe i got it wrong, but obviously they've cancelled the order twice, so i believe that there are managers in the front office who are compensated by "Average Order Time" and this order was a boat anchor, not being completed as there was a delay whilst openreach applied for a wayleave.

    WN.com - Articles related to Service tax on housing complexes needs review: Reddy 2010

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  • Should Bessie, my cow, ever wander

    To unfriendly fields over yonder

    Should I beg for wayleave

    To retrieve my stray beeve

    Or hope that soon homeward she'll maunder?

    October 27, 2015