Sec. 100.72  Competitive bidding design for DBS construction permits.

    (a) The Commission will employ the following competitive bidding 
designs when choosing from among mutually exclusive initial applications 
to provide DBS service:
    (1) Single round sealed bid auctions (either sequential or 
simultaneous);
    (2) Sequential oral auctions;
    (3) Combined sealed bid-oral auctions;

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    (4) Sequential multiple round electronic auctions; or
    (5) Simultaneous multiple round auctions.
    (b) The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau may design and test 
alternative procedures. The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau will 
announce by Public Notice before each auction the competitive bidding 
design to be employed in a particular auction.
    (c) The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau may use combinatorial 
bidding, which would allow bidders to submit all or nothing bids on 
combinations of construction permits, in addition to bids on individual 
construction permits. The Commission may require that to be declared the 
high bid, a combinatorial bid must exceed the sum of the individual bids 
by a specified amount. Combinatorial bidding may be used with any type 
of auction design.
    (d) The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau may use single combined 
auctions, which combine bidding for two or more substitutable 
construction permits and award construction permits to the highest 
bidders until the available construction permits are exhausted. This 
technique may be used in conjunction with any type of auction.