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On 4 April 2008 Ofcom announced a decision to award spectrum in the 2.6 GHz and 2010 MHz bands. In that announcement we indicated that we expected the application date for the award to be in July 2008. On 9 June 2008 we published an update explaining that in light of legal challenges of our decision brought by T-Mobile and O2, we had decided that it would be inappropriate to set the application date for July or August 2008.

That litigation is currently ongoing and we continue to press for it to be progressed as expeditiously as possible. In the meantime, we have decided that we will not call for applications in September or October 2008.

Ofcom believes that it remains in the public interest to hold the award as soon as possible, and depending on developments in the legal proceedings, we retain the ability to take any steps necessary to progress the auction process as appropriate.

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