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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-licence-modification-mobile-data-operator-licences-regulations-2000/schedule-n2/schedule-2/part-2/crossheading-condition-3_schedule-2-paragraph-3n9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1714",
  "legislation_title": "The Telecommunications (Licence Modification) (Mobile Data Operator Licences) Regulations 2000",
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  "text": "When implementing an Essential Interface, the Licensee shall not be obliged to conform with the Relevant Standard if to do so would necessitate the Licensee:\n(i) acquiring apparatus, software or other goods or supplies of any kind, or implementing any operation, incompatible with, as the case may be, apparatus, software or such other goods or supplies already in use at the time, or the subject of contracts for their procurement for use, in connection with the Applicable Systems, or, in the case of an operation, incompatible with any other operation being carried out at the time in connection therewith; or\n(ii) incurring any cost, or having to resolve technical difficulties, disproportionate to the benefits to be gained from the implementation of the Relevant Standard,\nprovided that the Licensee shall take reasonable steps to incorporate the Relevant Standard in its plans for network development, with a view to implementation of that Standard in connection with the Applicable Systems, but without the Licensee incurring any incremental expenditure which, but for the implementation of the Relevant Standard, would not have been incurred.",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:46.620714+00:00"
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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."
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