Regulation 73 Preparing a 2.3 GHz assignment stage option list for each bidder

(1)

OFCOM shall determine which 2.3 GHz assignment stage options shall be included in the 2.3 GHz assignment stage option list for each bidder which is eligible to bid in accordance with regulation 70.

(2)

A bidder's 2.3 GHz assignment stage options shall be each of those blocks of numbered 2.3 GHz lots which satisfy the following conditions—

(a)

the number of 2.3 GHz lots contained in the block is equal to the number of that bidder's winning principal stage bids for 2.3 GHz lots; and

(b)

if that bidder were assigned the 2.3 GHz lots contained in the block the following conditions would be satisfied—

(i)

each other bidder could be assigned 2.3 GHz lots contained in a block that, in respect of that other bidder's winning principal stage bids for 2.3 GHz lots, satisfies the condition in sub-paragraph (a); and

(ii)

the 2.3 GHz lots not assigned to that bidder or any other bidder would form a single block of numbered 2.3 GHz lots.