# The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) Regulations 2025, Regulation 77: 26 GHz lower assignment stage bids


(1) In order to bid for a 26 GHz lower assignment stage option, a bidder must specify on the assignment stage form either a value of zero pounds or an amount in whole thousands of pounds that it is willing to pay, in addition to the total 26 GHz lower base price for that bidder’s winning principal stage bid for 26 GHz lower lots, for a licence that authorises the use of frequencies corresponding to the block of numbered 26 GHz lower lots that is the 26 GHz lower assignment stage option.
(2) A bidder may make no more than one 26 GHz lower assignment stage bid for each 26 GHz lower assignment stage option.
(3) A bidder is not required to make a 26 GHz lower assignment stage bid.
(4) A 26 GHz lower assignment stage bid is a valid 26 GHz lower assignment stage bid if—
(a) the bid is specified on a valid assignment stage form; and
(b) the bidder has paid the full sum of the required first assignment stage round deposit by the deadline specified by OFCOM.
(5) Where a bidder does not make a valid 26 GHz lower assignment stage bid for a 26 GHz lower assignment stage option that bidder will be deemed to have made a valid 26 GHz lower assignment stage bid with a value of zero pounds for that 26 GHz lower assignment stage option.
(6) Where there is only one assignment stage option on a bidder’s 26 GHz lower assignment stage options list, that bidder shall be deemed to have made a valid 26 GHz lower assignment stage bid with a value of zero pounds for that 26 GHz lower assignment stage option.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/669/regulation/77 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2025/regulation-77
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