§ 1.21002   Prohibition of certain communications during the competitive bidding
process.

   (a)  Definition of Applicant. For purposes of this paragraph, the term
   “applicant” shall include any applicant, each party capable of controlling
   the applicant, and each party that may be controlled by the applicant or by
   a party capable of controlling the applicant.

   (b) Certain Communications Prohibited. After the deadline for submitting
   applications to participate, an applicant is prohibited from cooperating or
   collaborating with any other applicant with respect to its own, or one
   another's, or any other competing applicant's bids or bidding strategies,
   and is prohibited from communicating with any other applicant in any manner
   the  substance  of  its  own, or one another's, or any other competing
   applicant's  bids  or bidding strategies, until after the post-auction
   deadline for winning bidders to submit applications for support, unless such
   applicants are members of a joint bidding arrangement identified on the
   application pursuant to § 1.21001(b)(4).

   (c) Duty To Report Potentially Prohibited Communications. An applicant that
   makes or receives communications that may be prohibited pursuant to this
   paragraph  shall  report  such  communications to the Commission staff
   immediately,  and  in any case no later than 5 business days after the
   communication  occurs. An applicant's obligation to make such a report
   continues until the report has been made.

   (d)  Procedures  for  Reporting Potentially Prohibited Communications.
   Particular procedures for parties to report communications that may be
   prohibited under this rule may be established by public notice. If no such
   procedures are established by public notice, the party making the report
   shall do so in writing to the Chief of the Auctions and Spectrum Access
   Division by the most expeditious means available, including electronic
   transmission such as email.

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