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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-wireless-telegraphy-act-2006-directions-to-ofcom-order-2010/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111500767",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 (Directions to OFCOM) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-wireless-telegraphy-act-2006-directions-to-ofcom-order-2010",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Purpose of Directions",
  "text": "The Secretary of State gives these directions for the purposes of: ensuring the release of additional electromagnetic spectrum for use by providers of next generation wireless mobile broadband; allowing early deployment and maximising the coverage of those services; creating greater investment certainty for operators; and implementing Directive 2009/114/EC and the Decision on the liberalisation of frequencies in the 900MHz and 1800MHz bands.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Directive 2009/114/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 87/372/EEC on the frequency bands to be reserved for the coordinated introduction of public pan-European cellular digital land-based mobile communications in the Community (OJ L 274, 20.10.2009, p25)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Commission Decision 2009/766/EC."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111500767/article/2",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}