Surrendered: the operator handed the licence back
661 records, or nearly 15 per cent of the register — the second most common status after Active, and by a wide margin the most common way a licence ends. Surrender is voluntary: the company asked to give the permission up.
It is the ordinary end of a licence and usually says nothing bad. Companies close product lines, leave markets, restructure into a different legal entity, or get acquired and consolidate everything onto the buyer's account. All four of those look identical here.
It is not the same as revocation and should not be read as one. Revocation is the regulator withdrawing permission; surrender is the company returning it. The register keeps them as separate values precisely because they mean opposite things about who decided.
What follows from that is less comfortable. The word looks like an admission and gets reported as one. A licence surrendered on acquisition and a licence surrendered a week before an enforcement decision are the same word, and the register does not distinguish them — which is the reason to look further rather than to conclude either way.
What to do with it. If a surrender matters to you, look for what replaced it: an acquiring company's account, a new entity, or nothing at all. The third case is the one worth noticing.
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