Licence date

Just a small anecdote on sources of roll-out delays.

Our radio licence was signed (or at least dated) 4th of July 2007. We received the licence and information on its terms and conditions on 24th of August.

A regulatory requirement is that we roll out within 12 months of date of the issue (not receipt) of the licence.

Almost 8 weeks have passed since the date of issue of licence. An 8 week delay (15% of our roll-out time period) is usually very material. Thankfully in our case, the issue is academic as we intend to roll out well within the (now)10 month timeframe.

But I got the distinct impression that the reason for the delay was quite trivial. The physical licence document had to be sent to a third party for ........ binding!

Must admit though, the binding was quite nice!