NOTICE UNDER SECTION 12(6A) OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1984

MODIFICATIONS TO CROWN CASTLE UK’S TRANSMISSION LICENCE

The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry originally granted to HSCO Limited on 23 January 1997 a licence (the “Licence”) under section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 (the “Act”) for the running of the telecommunications systems specified in the Licence. Crown Castle UK Ltd (“CCUK”) now operates under this licence. On 25 June 2001, the Director General of Telecommunications (the “Director”), in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 12 of the Act, made the following modification to Condition 9.9 of the Licence: ‘“Relevant Price” means the total annual price charged for the following analogue transmission services provided to the BBC: (a) television (including CEEFAX and any other ancillary services related to television); (b) network radio, including Radios 1, 2, 3, 4, Radio 5 Live, radio data services and other ancillary services; (c) regional broadcasting, but, for the avoidance of any doubt, the total annual price charged for the above-mentioned services in any Relevant Year refers only to such services as are of the same nature and extent as those charged for, and provided to the BBC during, any part of the period 1 April 1996 to 31 March 1997, and any price charged for analogue transmission services in addition to those services shall therefore not constitute a Relevant Price under this Condition.’ In accordance with the section 12(6A) of the Act, the Director hereby gives notice that his reason for making the modification was to ensure that CCUK is able to meet the BBC’s requirements for additional services in accordance with the price control provision in the Licence. This modification will have the effect of clarifying that Relevant Price services are those services which are of the same nature and extent as those charged for and provided to the BBC between 1 April 1996 and 31 March 1997.