PART 4 BIDDING PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 10 Assignment stage: preliminary

72 Assignment stage
1 Where one of the regulations in Chapter 11 applies, OFCOM shall assign frequencies to the bidder that submitted the relevant winning principal stage bid in accordance with that regulation.
2 If—
(a) more than one winning principal stage bid included 800 MHz paired frequency lots and regulation 76 does not apply,
(b) more than one winning principal stage bid included 2.6 GHz paired frequency lots and none of regulations 80, 81, 82 or 83 apply, or
(c) more than one winning principal stage bid included 2.6 GHz individual frequency lots,
there shall be one further round of bidding (“assignment stage round”) in accordance with Chapters 12 to 14 to determine which frequencies shall be assigned to each winning bidder that submitted one of those winning principal stage bids.
3 If a particular type of lot was not included in any winning principal stage bid, there shall be no assignment of the frequencies corresponding to that type of lot and no licence shall be granted for those frequencies.