The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) Regulations 2018

Valid combinations of 3.4 GHz assignment stage bids where the pre-existing licence holder is not a bidder or is a bidder but did not apply for a replacement licence

83.—(1) This regulation applies where the pre-existing licence holder—

(a)is not a bidder; or

(b)is a bidder but did not apply for a replacement licence.

(2) A combination of valid 3.4 GHz assignment stage bids is a valid combination of 3.4 GHz assignment stage bids if—

(a)within that combination there is one valid 3.4 GHz assignment stage bid from each winning bidder for 3.4 GHz lots;

(b)each of those valid 3.4 GHz assignment stage bids is for a 3.4 GHz assignment stage option as determined by OFCOM for the bidder under regulation 79;

(c)no numbered 3.4 GHz lot is included in more than one of the 3.4 GHz assignment stage options included in the combination of valid 3.4 GHz assignment stage bids; and

(d)the numbered 3.4 GHz lots not included in that combination of valid assignment stage bids together form at most one single block of numbered 3.4 GHz lots in the lower 3.4 GHz frequency range and at most one single block of numbered 3.4 GHz lots in the upper 3.4 GHz frequency range.