WHY is, in fact, what this is all about.
What have I done wrong?
Cellnex and its subsidiaries do not provide any answers as to how and WHY this is the case.
Yes, later, when you write a review, you are not acting professionally, and they use this as an excuse to wash their hands of the matter. But dirty hands cannot be cleaned so easily. I have been working in the towers as a mechanic for over 45 years (since 1 January 1979).
It is therefore not surprising that, in consultation, you are allowed to make use of small benefits as a radio amateur. Call it a policy of tolerance that has existed for decades.
In 2014, the new owner (Alticom) wanted to formalise everything. Alticom had already taken over the towers from my previous employer KPN years earlier and had therefore been the owner of the towers for several years before 2014.
A letter arrives from Alticom stating that we will receive a (new) agreement and that the rent will still be almost free. (Almost has to do with legal regulations that prohibit ‘free of charge’ agreements).
A conversation follows in which it is made very clear that “with this agreement, you will have more security and they cannot simply evict you.
I believe it also mentioned “in the event of a takeover”, but I will have to look up my notes from that time to be sure. It would make sense, because a takeover is often preceded by a long period of preparation.
Fortunately, what I did not immediately see in a tenancy agreement is not so shocking that I need to worry about it too much. However, the solicitor has a different opinion. We shall see, is my response. For the time being, the first notice of termination has completely failed, the second notice of termination makes no sense at all, and we are eagerly awaiting the third notice of termination. Given that a termination can only be given by 31 December of a calendar year and that the termination then takes a year, I have, in any case, an agreement until 1 January 2028 without a court ruling. It is the solicitor’s choice to disagree with this.
After all, the lawyer ensures that the court is not allowed to rule on the agreements in question. See the judgement!
With these words, ‘this agreement gives you more security and they can’t just kick you out,’ you create trust. You then look less closely at the documents you sign. You don’t expect them to stab you in the back later.
Especially the man who said these words (a former colleague of mine).
I would stake my life on this man (now retired).
Taking into account the fact that verbal commitments are also legally valid.
But to bother this man with this now is going a bit too far for me.
Even if it would make my case even stronger.
In January 2024, you spontaneously receive an email stating that an agreement was terminated in November 2022 without your knowledge.
However, the solicitor claims that the purpose of the agreement was to give us one year’s notice. Why? What is the point of this? After that, the agreements could be terminated without giving any reason. Later in this letter, I make statements to which I will return immediately. I could remove this, but it does show my feelings towards the solicitor.
In this situation, this could well be equivalent. After all, there is a very good chance that the solicitor at Broadcast Partners (now On Tower Netherlands 3 B.V.) at the time has no knowledge of this letter from 2013. After all, consultation and recording are concepts that the new Alticom and Cellnex are apparently unfamiliar with.
I will return to this in more detail later.
If you ask employees, the legal advisor, and even the CEO in writing to engage in dialogue, your request will be repeatedly rejected. You will not receive an explanation as to why. What other option do you have but to make your story (experience) public?
Of course, you do this to the best of your knowledge and ability (in good faith), given the lack of information from Cellnex and its subsidiaries. If something is incorrect, then it is MEA CULPA and I will correct it. But apparently, my story is accurate to the letter to date. After all, I cannot afford to make mistakes.
Writing a review does not just happen out of the blue. You only write a review when something has gone wrong. A review is further expanded if the perpetrator does not want to talk to you. Not even in court, by saying that the wrong party has been summoned and there is no urgent interest. As a result, there will be no court ruling on whether or not an agreement exists. For me, this means that both the cancellations and the terminations of any agreement are meaningless and that I am therefore being unjustly denied access.
It is important to note that I did everything in the interests of Dutch Radio Amateur Broadcasting as a volunteer for a group of around 12,500 hobbyists in the Netherlands.
It is also important to note that these almost extinct analogue means of communication could serve as a backup for communication in the Netherlands during the failure of critical government communication means and in times of war. But the chance of war is so small, why are we worrying about it?!?! And communication networks such as C2000 are very reliable.
WHY
In the period between 2022 and 2024, the termination, which was unknown to me at the time, was not implemented because the focus was on something else. I can only guess what the focus was on, as I knew nothing about it. However, access was made very difficult and, in the meantime, sabotage was committed three times within the protected walls of the Lelystad tower. This sabotage, the perpetrator of which is now in the cemetery due to obstruction of an investigation by Cellnex/Alticom, does, however, show how secure the towers are. In fact, Cellnex/Alticom should do everything in its power to find out who is committing this sabotage, as they are responsible for it.
Even a report of suspected sabotage could not be pursued because the police were unable to investigate the crime scene. Later, during the commission of a crime with my equipment, even the RDI of the Ministry of Economic Affairs was unable to ensure that I could switch off my equipment and was forced to tolerate the crime. More on this in the next chapter.
WHY
From the age of 14, I had been interested in transmitters and receivers.
Electrical engineering had caught my attention much earlier. I think I was about 7 years old when I made my first wire stripper from a pair of wire cutters. I simply cut through the twin cord of a desk lamp and flash, boom, bang. The jaws of the wire cutters were modified to function as wire strippers in two different sizes.
I am now 64 years young. So I have been familiar with radio technology for 50 years. We are not talking about transmitters (bakkies) that you can buy in a shop, but a handful of parts that you solder together.
In 1987 alone, I made 65 transmitters in a box at the bottom of a flat on IJplein in Amsterdam with a power of 700 watts (1400 watts ERP). My regular customer was the RCD (Radio Control Service). Always second-hand, but as good as new (completely burned out in a few days). Sometimes there was a block of concrete in it to reduce the cost of an expensive transformer. The confiscated power supplies were extremely dangerous. For the techies among us, a normal plug for 230 volts, a block of concrete with a piece of neoprene cable running through it, a bridge cell (rectifier) that converted 220 volts AC to 316 volts DC and then fed this into a 100,000 microfarad 75-volt electrolytic capacitor.
For the less technically minded, it was a device that could handle a maximum of 75 volts, which you connected to 316 volts. Nowadays, they call it a Cobra 6 or something like that.
On 1 January 1979, at the age of 17, I joined the PTT (Post, Telegraph and Telephone Service).
By then, I had already had three jobs, including at KTA Kabel Televisie Amsterdam, a supermarket (Witte Prijzenhal) and Kemperman Lichtreclame in Amsterdam.
It goes without saying that I never finished primary school and was still of school age when I started my fourth job.
Later on, I obtained my MBO 4 qualification, but due to my age, I did not pursue my HBO qualification. So I am certainly not stupid, but merely a victim of a failing youth policy. For the how and WHY, you will have to search one of the fifty other sites. I recently read that the title of lawyer is not protected, you can publicly use the name of a lawyer and anyone can call themselves a lawyer. That explains a lot, haha. Let me add that I found this information through an AI internet search.
Whether it is actually true, I will leave open for now. After all, I am not religious. For the time being, I will remain a citizen with very little legal experience. A student of the unknown.
In 1979, I gained access to a few towers in and around the Amsterdam region. Later, this expanded to all towers in the Netherlands. Initially, this was for the construction and maintenance of telephony and line connections via copper wire. Fibre optics did not exist yet. Later, I also came into increasing contact with radio stations on a professional basis. As a hobby, this had happened much earlier. In 1987, (my former employer) PTT ensured that I made the switch from Radiopiraat to Radio Zend Amateur. To do this, they needed 148 police officers, a few civil servants from the RCD (Radio Control Service) (unpaid civil servants with the national police force) who were also my direct colleagues. After spending three days in a police station, the tax authorities also paid me a visit. I would like to share my experiences with 18 fellow radio pirates with you in another chapter.
A two-year suspension, an unsuccessful resignation in 1989 and finally, on 1 June 2011, leaving the old PTT, at that time KPN, at my own request. In hindsight, the latter turned out to be due to a medical condition/disability that had remained hidden all those years due to failing youth policy. So now you know that I was also a naughty boy. I was proud to be that naughty boy. I have never regretted doing what I did. Illegal transmitters, piracy, I was immediately cured of that, what a fuss and commotion about people who had good intentions. Unfortunately, in early 2024, Cellnex and/or Alticom forced me to keep an illegal transmitter active in the ether. I was not allowed access, I was denied access to the tower, and the crime was tolerated by the Old RCD, later the Telecom Agency, and now the RDI. WHY? Probably because it was not me but the owner of the tower who would be responsible for committing this crime.
I have never been convicted, despite the fact that I have confessed to all my misdeeds.
Welcome to the Netherlands. Until 1 June 2011, I was involved with the most critical communication systems of both the government and Schiphol Airport.
The concept of “using thieves to catch thieves” is a clear example of this.
Was I a wolf in sheep’s clothing? Or was I a sheep dressed as a wolf?
I am certainly not a wolf in sheep’s clothing. After all, I am always open and honest.
The reverse is not true either, as I always tell people what I am doing.
Forewarned is forearmed, so I am neither. (food for thought)
I am a cow. I am also a deer. My name is Chris. But above all, I am a:
Pittbull
WHY?
I cannot stand
INJUSTICE
From 1979 to 2011, I worked in radio and media towers throughout the Netherlands. Later, most antenna masts/installation points were added to this.
Until 2014, I still had full authority over the towers in the interest of a legal hobby as a radio amateur.
A large part of all other installation points, such as an old 90-metre-high mast on the old Waterlandseweg in Almere harbour, were also my playground until part of 2016. In 2016, Cellnex took this playground away from me without giving any prior notice. Yes, the afternoon before, at 4:06 p.m., I received a message that the next day, a tenant would be removing antennas at a height of 77 metres, where our antennas were located. Before 9:00 a.m., our antennas were already on the ground. After all, antennas don’t stay up if the supporting structure is removed. To keep the atmosphere positive and avoid immediately filing large claims for damages, we decided to temporarily store the transmitters in our cabinet in Lelystad. Little did we know that Cellnex/Alticom would also block the space in the Lelystad tower shortly afterwards. So there is obviously more going on.
From 2014 to part of 2022, I had access to the Lelystad tower and rented a small piece of another tower somewhere in the Netherlands, the location of which Cellnex/Alticom would very much like to know. The solicitor employed by On Tower Netherlands 3 B.V. is particularly keen to find out.
Well, you know, there is one thing that has kept me going for many years. ‘Silence is golden’ (You are not obliged to answer, (Everything you say can and will be used against you).
Moreover, there is absolutely no point in telling Cellnex/Alticom anything. They are as deaf as can be and have never heard of memory or transfer.
SILENCE IS GOLDEN
On 23 November 1987, the front page of De Telegraaf was full of lies about me.
By doing nothing, I got two years of paid holiday for nothing. It’s a pity that my coffee money and lunch allowance were stopped. I think it was something like FL 15.00 per day.
The fact that these were lies is evident from the fact that, after these publications and a two-year suspension, I continued to work with great pleasure until 2011 for the company responsible for these accusations. WHY was I able to do that? In any case, this shows that I am not resentful. Where does the solicitor of On Towers Netherlands 3 B.V., part of Cellnex, get the right to make allegations against me in court that I would be capable of sabotaging the installations of fellow users of the Lelystad Tower? (My former colleagues/current friends). I will return to this in detail in my next chapter.
Well, until 2022, I was welcome in two towers. From 2014 onwards, I had to request access, whereas before that I could enter any tower in the Netherlands without having to report anything. I only had to write my name and telephone number on a white board in the lobby of the tower. This was purely for safety reasons, so that in the event of an emergency, the emergency services would know who was in the tower.
So we are talking about 35 years of free access, 8 years on request and more than 3 years as a small child accompanied by a supervisor. The last time was 18 December 2025, so more than 46 years in total.
As things stand at present, I retain the right to enter the Lelystad tower/use a small part of it until at least 1 January 2028. If this is denied to me, unless the court rules otherwise before that time, I will seek compensation.
But then, Cellnex/Alticom/the lawyer of Broadcast Partners, now On Tower Netherlands3 B.V., will first have to properly terminate the agreement again. At this moment, I dare say that there is no active termination of what I rent in and on the Lelystad tower. The 2014 agreements remain firmly in place, despite the refusal of access.
On 29 November 2022, Cellnex/Alticom attempted to terminate the agreement. They did not do this properly and the termination was therefore withdrawn by the solicitor employed by On Tower Netherlands 3 B.V. (a subsidiary of Cellnex).
Here too, the solicitor is trying to shift the blame onto the customer through lies or ignorance. Even in court.
Feel free to grab a cup of coffee, I’ll keep writing.
Ending a relationship of more than 46 years should be as cheap as possible.
Well, that’s simple: all correspondence goes via email, sent by registered post for less than €10 to be on the safe side, so you know for sure that the letter has arrived. Then at least there can be no arguments about it.
Only a donkey stumbles over the same stone twice. Well, this lawyer too, apparently.
Maybe he can mislead the judge! But anyone reading this book must really be from a good family.
May I digress from my argument for a moment? May I take you to the red-light district of Amsterdam before 1987? One of my first jobs was in a brothel with one of those red lights on the outside. I was just testing something and half the street was standing outside. Apparently, someone (an old colleague of mine) or someone else had used junction boxes with the name PTT on them for an alarm system. The alarm system worked properly. Was it Trompetsteeg? I don’t remember. I was just 18 and a customer came in. And yes, the work continued. Hidden behind a red curtain, ‘with red ears,’ I heard everything. Maybe that’s why I’m still faithful to my girlfriend. I met many different people there, drug dealers on the seafront who came to see what I was doing in that telephone cable box. Not that he was interested in the thousands of wires, but purely because his merchandise was behind the box I was sitting in front of at the time. Another person I met there was Major Bosshardt. Even though I don’t believe in anything, we had some good conversations. What a nice woman she was. Unfortunately, I can’t say that about everyone.
It was Boxing Day 1961, the rabbit hutch was empty. And I was 7 months old.
My Flappie
No mail, no registered letter. No way, far too expensive! They still had an old stamp with a barely visible postmark. Just steam it off another customer’s envelope and we’ve saved another €0.60. Hey, wake up, stop dreaming. I had already left the address where the cancellation was sent five years earlier. Perhaps my previous partner still lived there, but in any case, I did not receive any mail at my new address. A change of address that had been confirmed and reported to Alticom five years earlier. And then tell the court that I ‘probably’ failed to report my change of address several times. What a jerk that lawyer is. Or could it be that all the information is being deliberately withheld? And is there nothing the lawyer can do about it? Just a correction to my statement about the jerk, as this is an unproven fact. Sorry, MEA CULPA, but I’ll keep searching until I can substantiate my statement. It shouldn’t be that difficult.
The text below is a question and answer game.
Hey, do you work for Cellnex after all? No, I don’t! But this behaviour is more in line with Cellnex! Oh well, it’s just a matter of trying to adapt a little to the other party! Six months of sick leave was the result of this effort.
It is 16 January 2024, 15:44. I receive the following message by email:
‘Dear Mr Koeree, dear Chris’,
Now you also know where the Cow and the Deer come from, at least better than a donkey.
“Good afternoon,
In November 2022, you received a letter on behalf of Alticom B.V.
This relates to an existing lease agreement at Telecom and Mediatoren in Lelystad.
The letter, which can also be found in the attachment, concerns a termination, which should have taken effect
on 1 January 2023.
Due to various other priorities, Cellnex has not yet followed up on this.”
CELLNEX? Had I sued the wrong party after all?
“That is why I am sending this email.
I would like to ask you to respond to the letter within 14 days, either by email to me, so that we can arrange for the equipment to be dismantled.
And to hand over the pass and key, which were issued on loan.
I ask for your understanding and cooperation in this matter.
Kind regards”,
I am not allowed to mention the name.
Please pay close attention to the names. These names clearly show later in this argument how Cellnex boasts that it has everything under control, but as soon as the matter is taken to court, Cellnex abuses its subsidiaries for this purpose.
Oh oh, playing with fire. Yes, I agree with you, so here’s a brief explanation: Cellnex’s subsidiaries are not girls, but just a few companies that have to take the heat when father and/or mother get into too much trouble! ‘(Cellnex is the parent company of Alticom B.V., among others).’
- Cellnex is neither the owner nor the lessor of the Tower. (CVA 19-11-2024)
Hey, what the hell, where did this come from? What is this strange thing, and above all, WHY?
I know nothing about it! I’m not familiar with it at all! But then this comes as a complete shock!
Well, let’s first see what’s going on. After all, it’s my first email in three years (apart from the regularly misaddressed invoices, which fortunately were always sent by email), my last email dates from 3 December 2020 “Dear Mr Have you heard anything from your colleague “? This email was, of course, a question from me to employee in response to the previous email of 18 September 2020 below;
“Dear Chris,
Have a nice holiday and thank you for this reminder. I have asked my colleague * to respond to your change request and I will make sure that as soon as you are back from your holiday, I will have gathered the options for you”.
‘Kind regards,’
Apologies for my late response today, 19 January 2026. However, I returned from holiday several years ago. Oh, you too? You fled? Yes, it was for the best, haha. And my colleague *? Yes, they fled too. And no one knows what was discussed.
Whether it’s Cellnex or Alticom or the lawyer from Broadcast Partners (On Towers Netherlands 3 B.V.), it all falls under Cellnex. And this is how these organisations/companies treat their customers.
WHY
Email after email after email, all in the name of Cellnex or Broadcast Partners and addressed to Cellnex or Broadcast Partners, sometimes with a reference to Alticom.
WHY
WHY? It’s none of your business! (Of course, this isn’t the actual text), but that’s how it comes across. Have I done something wrong? No answer!
WHY
On 29 January 2024, I received an email from Broadcast Partners’ solicitor. This was a few hours or perhaps a day after the solicitor had called me. During the telephone conversation, the solicitor asked me at one point why I didn’t work for him (his employer). After all, there are other former radio pirates working at Broadcast Partners. So the solicitor already knew that I had a lot of experience in broadcasting technology. Perhaps he had already spoken to colleagues and mentioned my name.
But no, I replied, I have a disability that prevents me from dealing with managers who have no technical knowledge and who have to tell me how to do my job. For this reason, I have been declared unfit for work and am now registered with the UWV (on the other side of the counter).
The conversation changed from pleasant to very dismissive. Apparently, the solicitor from Broadcast Partners (now On Towers Netherlands 3 B.V.) does not appreciate openness and honesty.
Right, the email of 29 January 2024
“Dear Mr Koeree,
Thank you for the conversation we just had.
You have clearly explained your position. I will inform my colleague about what we have discussed. I hope that you and can still come to a solution.”
The solution is to pay almost 7,000 times the current rent. (Trump to power 60 squared or something like that).
The following section contains information about the “bag of chips” agreement, which I am not allowed to disclose. So let’s move on to the next part of the email.
‘From the correspondence below, I understand that you received the letter of termination dated 29 November 2022, enclosed with this letter, in January 2024. Given the circumstances, your lease of the mast/tower in Lelystad did not end on 1 January 2023″. Okay, but I wasn’t allowed in all that time, because those are the rules for an active termination according to the access department.
Finally, something that makes sense. It’s a shame that the court is saying that I’m probably the cause of this. No, Mr Lawyer, this is because Alticom/Cellnex doesn’t keep track of anything and limits itself to reporting that they would process the address changes, but they didn’t do so and then they didn’t do so again, and it was no different with the third address change. Just as they do not know what I rent, what I have, and even threaten to charge me if I remove two antennas that do not belong to me before 1 January 2026. Oh, sorry, the solicitor did not mention that they do not belong to me. I was so afraid of the solicitor that, despite my physical disability and age, my Cellnex advisor said last year that I should not do this, that they would take care of it. I still removed these two antennas with the help of the same advisor. I took the antennas with me and am keeping them for the time being in case the owner asks for them. Mind you, it could be a very complex battle to determine who the owner of these antennas is or was. Oh well, you have to keep yourself busy when your hobby is taken away from you. But why is my hobby being taken away from me? We’re not telling you that! After all, we can terminate the contract without giving a reason. I don’t believe it for a second. And even if it were true, it’s still crazy.
WHY
‘To avoid any ambiguity, Alticom, also trading under the name Cellnex, hereby gives notice of termination of your lease of the mast/tower in Lelystad at the earliest possible date, so that it will end on 29 February 2024, subject to a one-month notice period.’
Who says what?
On?
Who is using what I rent without my permission?
What is this?
Am I illegally subletting something?
Is that perhaps the reason?
At the bottom of the email is the name of the solicitor, at that time employed by Broadcast Partners, and with a logo from Cellnex stating that it is no longer the owner or lessor, the email from Broadcast Partners claims that what I am not renting is being terminated and ends with the Cellnex logo. To come up with this, you really need to know what you are talking about. Or you are simply a lawyer employed by Broadcast Partners, now On Tower Netherlands 3 B.V., and you are completely wrong.
WHY
Yes, WHY? Cellnex, Alticom, Broadcast Partners, On Tower Netherlands 3 B.V. are all silent, they don’t want to say anything, or they simply don’t know. And if they don’t tell me anything, then I have to make do with the information I have myself. And believe me, after more than 45 years, I know what I’m talking about.
In the beginning, you still paid a fixed amount for energy supply. There is no intermediate meter. Yes, and? The measured consumption was still well below the minimum I had to pay! So you started this whole circus because you can’t calculate how much you have to pay me back at the end of the year! GRRRRRRR pststss damn it.
No, that’s not it. You’re paying the 2014 price level and you have to pay the 2024 price level.
And yes, that’s almost 7000 times higher. But I’m paying a symbolic amount! If that’s the 2014 price level and in 2024 it’s 7,000 times as much, then all those other companies in 2014 should have paid the 2024 price level divided by almost 7,000 in 2014. Then you’ve been cheating and deceiving all your customers for many years! Or is this a case of unequal treatment or discrimination?
From 2022 onwards, everyone will have to pay the same. What nonsense! For the time being, I am the only one. My friends and, thanks to you, now also my enemies, are all still paying what is it you call it? Oh yes, the 2014 price level, or perhaps even earlier.
WHY
ARE YOU
DOING
THIS
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