{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2012/regulation-88",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2012/regulation-88.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2817",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/88",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "88",
  "heading": "Assignment stage round and assignment stage bids",
  "text": "(1) Only the following bidders may bid in the assignment stage round—\n(a) winning bidders that submitted a winning principal stage bid that included one or more 800 MHz paired frequency lots, and have not been assigned frequencies in respect of those lots under Chapter 11;\n(b) winning bidders that submitted a winning principal stage bid that included one or more 2.6 GHz paired frequency lots, and have not been assigned frequencies in respect of those lots under Chapter 11;\n(c) winning bidders that submitted a winning principal stage bid that included one or more 2.6 GHz individual frequency lots, and have not been assigned frequencies in respect of those lots under Chapter 11.\n(2) A bid made during the assignment stage round (“assignment stage bid”) shall be a bid for a licence which authorises the use of frequencies corresponding to—\n(a) a block of numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots;\n(b) a block of numbered 2.6 GHz paired frequency lots; or\n(c) a block of numbered 2.6 GHz individual frequency lots.\n(3) OFCOM shall determine which blocks of—\n(a) numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots,\n(b) numbered 2.6 GHz paired frequency lots, and\n(c) numbered 2.6 GHz individual frequency lots,\neach bidder may bid for.\n(4) The list of possible blocks of numbered lots provided to each bidder may be different for each bidder.\n(5) The list shall be known as the “assignment stage option list” and each block of lots in that list shall be known as an “assignment stage option”.\n(6) A bid made during the assignment stage round shall be a bid for—\n(a) a block of numbered 800 MHz paired frequency lots,\n(b) a block of numbered 2.6 GHz paired frequency lots, or\n(c) a block of numbered 2.6 GHz individual frequency lots,\nwhich matches an assignment stage option for that bidder.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 88 in force at 23.11.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2817/regulation/88",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:13:57.689365+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}