{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2025/regulation-83",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2025/regulation-83.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/669",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/83",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "83",
  "heading": "Determination of the winning 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids",
  "text": "(1) OFCOM shall determine the winning 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids after the deadline for paying the required second assignment stage round deposit.\n(2) The winning 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids shall be those valid 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids that comprise the winning combination of valid 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids.\n(3) The winning combination of valid 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids shall be the valid combination of 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids having the highest total value of amounts bid.\n(4) A combination of valid 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids is a valid combination of 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids if—\n(a) within that combination there is one valid 26 GHz upper assignment stage bid from each winning bidder for 26 GHz upper lots;\n(b) each of those valid 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids is for a 26 GHz upper assignment stage option as determined by OFCOM for the bidder;\n(c) no numbered 26 GHz upper lot is included in more than one of the 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids included in the combination of valid 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids; and\n(d) the leftover numbered 26 GHz upper lots not included in that combination of valid 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids, taken together, form a single block of numbered 26 GHz upper lots which include 26 GHz lot 12.\n(5) Where there is more than one valid combination of 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids for which the total value is equal highest, OFCOM shall employ a method of random selection from amongst those valid combinations of 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids for which the value is equal highest to determine the winning combination of valid 26 GHz upper assignment stage bids.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/669/regulation/83",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:15:06.977449+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."
}