The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) Regulations 2012

Assignment stage options for 800 MHz paired frequency lots

90.—(1) Where no winning principal stage bid included the 800 MHz coverage obligation lot, or the winning principal stage bid that included the 800 MHz coverage obligation lot did not also include any 800 MHz paired frequency lots, the assignment stage options for a bidder eligible to bid under regulation 88(1)(a), in respect of the 800 MHz paired frequency lots included in its winning principal stage bid, shall be those blocks of numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots which satisfy the following conditions—

(a) the number of 800 MHz paired frequency lots contained in the block is equal to the number of such lots included in the bidder’s winning principal stage bid; and

(b) if that winning bidder were assigned the frequencies corresponding to that block, the following conditions would be satisfied—

(i) each other winning bidder that included 800 MHz paired frequency lots in its winning principal stage bid could be assigned frequencies corresponding to a block of numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots that, in respect of that bidder’s winning principal stage bid, satisfies the condition in sub-paragraph (a);

(ii) no numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lot would be included in more than one of the following blocks of numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots—

(aa) the block that is the assignment stage option under this paragraph; and

(bb) the blocks comprising the frequencies to be assigned to other winning bidders that included 800 MHz paired frequency lots in their winning principal stage bids;

(iii) those blocks of numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots would, taken together, form a single block of numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots; and

(iv) 800 MHz paired frequency lot 4 would be included in that single block of numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots.

(2) Where the winning principal stage bid that included the 800 MHz coverage obligation lot also included at least one 800 MHz paired frequency lot (such that frequencies corresponding to numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots have been assigned to that bidder under regulation 74), the assignment stage options for a bidder eligible to bid under regulation 88(1)(a), in respect of the 800 MHz paired frequency lots included in its winning principal stage bid, shall be those blocks of numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots which satisfy the following conditions—

(a) the number of 800 MHz paired frequency lots contained in the block is equal to the number of 800 MHz paired frequency lots included in the bidder’s winning principal stage bid; and

(b) if that winning bidder were assigned the frequencies corresponding to that block of numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots, the following conditions would be satisfied—

(i) each other winning bidder that included 800 MHz paired frequency lots in its winning principal stage bid could be assigned frequencies corresponding to a block of numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots that, in respect of that bidder’s winning principal stage bid, satisfies the condition in sub-paragraph (a);

(ii) no numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lot would be included in more than one of the following blocks of numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots—

(aa) the block that is the assignment stage option under this paragraph;

(bb) the blocks comprising the frequencies to be assigned to other winning bidders that included 800 MHz paired frequency lots in their winning principal stage bids;

(cc) the block comprising the frequencies assigned under regulation 74; and

(iii) the blocks of numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) would, taken together, form a single block of numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots.