On 10 May 2005, Crown Castle UK Ltd (registered company number 3196207) made an application for the electronic communications code for the purposes of the provision of an electronic communications network in the United Kingdom in accordance with section 107(1) of the Communications Act 2003 and the notification published by Ofcom by virtue of the Transitional Provisions under section 107(2) of the Act on 10 October 2003 setting out their requirements with respect to the content of an application for the electronic communications code and the manner in which such an application is to be made.
On 26 May 2005, Ofcom published a notification of their proposal to give a direction applying the Code to Crown Castle UK Ltd in accordance with section 107 of the Act.