Federal Communications Commission § 90.665

§ 90.656 Responsibilities of base sta- where within their authorized MTA, tion licensees of Specialized Mobile provided that: Radio systems. (1) The MTA licensee affords protec- (a) The licensees of base stations that tion, in accordance with § 90.621(b), to provide Specialized Mobile Radio serv- all sites for which applications were ice on a commercial basis of the use of filed on or prior to August 9, 1994. individuals, Federal government agen- (2) The MTA licensee complies with cies, or persons eligible for licensing any rules and international agreements under either subparts B or C of this that restrict use of frequencies identi- part will be responsible for exercising fied in their spectrum block, including effective operational control over all the provisions of § 90.619 relating to mobile and control stations that com- U.S./Canadian and U.S./Mexican border municate with the base station. The areas. base station licensee will be respon- (3) The MTA licensee limits its field sible for assuring that its system is op- strength at any location on the border erated in compliance with all applica- of the MTA service area in accordance ble rules and regulations. with § 90.671 and masks its emissions in accordance with § 90.669. (b) Customers that operate mobile (b) In the event that the authoriza- units on a particular Specialized Mo- tion for a previously authorized co- bile Radio system will be licensed to channel station within the MTA licens- that system. A customer that operates ee’s authorized spectrum block is ter- temporarily on more than one system minated or revoked, the MTA licens- will be deemed, when communicating ee’s co-channel obligations to such sta- with the other system, to be tempo- tion will cease upon deletion of the fa- rarily licensed to the other system and cility from the Commission’s licensing for that temporary period, the licensee record. The MTA licensee then will be of the other system will assume the able to construct and operate base sta- same licensee responsibility for the tions using such frequency. customer’s mobile station(s) as if the customer’s stations were licensed to [60 FR 21991, May 4, 1995] that other system. § 90.665 Authorization, construction [57 FR 40851, Sept. 8, 1992, as amended at 62 and implementation of MTA li- FR 18935, Apr. 17, 1997] censes.

POLICIES GOVERNING THE LICENSING AND (a) MTA licenses in the 896–901/935–940 USE OF MTA-BASED SMR SYSTEMS IN MHz band will be issued for a term not THE 896–901/935–940 MHZ BAND to exceed ten years. (b) MTA licensees in the 896–901/935– § 90.661 MTA-based SMR service areas. 940 MHz band will be permitted five years to construct their stations. This MTA licenses for SMR spectrum five-year period will commence with blocks in the 896–901/935–940 MHz band the issuance of the MTA-wide author- listed in table 4B of § 90.617(d) are avail- ization and will apply to all of the li- able in 51 Major Trading Areas (MTAs) censee’s stations within the MTA spec- as defined in § 90.7. Within these MTAs, trum block, including any stations licenses will be authorized in ten chan- that may have been subject to an ear- nel blocks as specified in table 4B of lier construction deadline arising from § 90.617(d) through the competitive bid- a pre-existing authorization. ding procedures described in subpart U (c) Each MTA licensee in the 896–901/ of this part. 935–940 MHz band must, three years [60 FR 21991, May 4, 1995] from the date of license grant, con- struct and place into operation a suffi- § 90.663 MTA-based SMR system oper- cient number of base stations to pro- ations. vide coverage to at least one-third of (a) MTA-based licensees authorized the population of the MTA; further, in the 896–901/935–940 MHz band pursu- each MTA licensee must provide cov- ant to § 90.661 may construct and oper- erage to at least two-thirds of the pop- ate base stations using any frequency ulation of the MTA five years from the identified in their spectrum block any- date of license grant. Alternatively, an

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