PART 6The principal stage
CHAPTER 3Winning principal stage bids and determination of base price
2.3 GHz bids in respect of which standing high bid status was withdrawn becoming winning principal stage bids39.
(1)
Subject to paragraph (3), principal stage bids for 2.3 GHz lots in respect of which standing high bid status was withdrawn shall become winning principal stage bids for those lots in the circumstances described in paragraph (2).
(2)
The circumstances are where—
(a)
following the principal stage round in which the standing high bid status of those bids was withdrawn, no bidder withdrew standing high bid status from bids for any 2.3 GHz lots; and
(b)
after the end of the final principal stage round, OFCOM does not assign standing high bid status to four principal stage bids for 2.3 GHz lots.
(3)
The number of principal stage bids for 2.3 GHz lots which shall become winning principal stage bids under this regulation shall be the number calculated in accordance with paragraph (4).
(4)
The number referred to in paragraph (3) shall be calculated in accordance with the formula (4-x), where x is the number of 2.3 GHz lots to which OFCOM assigned standing high bid status after the end of the final principal stage round.