The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2817) (the “Principal Regulations”).

Regulation 16 of the Principal Regulations deals with the recording by the Office of Communications (“OFCOM”) of bidders’ existing spectrum holdings. It is amended to make provision for existing spectrum holdings which will expire before 2nd October 2015.

Regulation 24 of the Principal Regulations sets out a spectrum cap rule and is amended to make provision for rights of use that relate to 2.6 GHz concurrent low power 10 MHz lots or 2.6 GHz concurrent low power 20 MHz lots.

In Table 2 of Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations frequencies are amended to correct a typographical error.

These Regulations do not have any effect on the cost of business additional to the effect of the Principal Regulations and a full regulatory impact assessment of the effect the Principal Regulations will have on the cost to business has been prepared and is available to the public from the OFCOM library at Riverside House, 2a Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 9HA, telephone [phone] or on the OFCOM internet website at www.ofcom.org.uk. Copies of the impact assessment have also been placed in the libraries of the Houses of Parliament.