The Wireless Telegraphy (Mobile Spectrum Trading) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Wireless Telegraphy (Mobile Spectrum Trading) Regulations 2011 (“the principal Regulations”) (S.I. 2011/1507, amended by S.I. 2013/646, S.I. 2015/1339, S.I. 2019/951 and 2025/700).

Regulation 6 of the principal Regulations sets out the circumstances in which a transfer of rights and obligations arising by virtue of a wireless telegraphy licence is not authorised.

Regulation 2 amends that regulation to omit paragraph (c), with the effect that, where a licensee has chosen to pay the licence charge for the licence by instalments, the requirement for all instalment payments to be paid to OFCOM before a transfer is authorised is removed.

It also amends paragraph (b) (which provides that a transfer is not authorised where a sum payable in respect of that licence to OFCOM has not been paid by the time it became due) to remove the references to revoked legislation and to include references to the current Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges for the 900 MHz Frequency Band and the 1800 MHz Frequency Band) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/967) and the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges for the 2100 MHz Frequency Band) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1053).

A full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs to business and the voluntary sector is available to the public from OFCOM at Riverside House, 2a Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 9HA (Tel: [phone]) or on the OFCOM website at www.ofcom.org.uk. Copies of the report have also been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament.