[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR101.1]

[Page 653]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
                         COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 101_FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec.  101.1  Scope and authority.


    (a) Part 1 of the Commission's rules contains the general rules of 
practice and procedure applicable to proceedings before the Commission 
and for the filing of applications for radio station licenses in the 
fixed microwave services.
    (b) The purpose of the rules in this part is to prescribe the manner 
in which portions of the radio spectrum may be made available for 
private operational, common carrier, 24 GHz Service and Local Multipoint 
Distribution Service fixed, microwave operations that require 
transmitting facilities on land or in specified offshore coastal areas 
within the continental shelf.
    (c) The rules in this part are issued pursuant to the authority 
contained in Titles I through III of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended, which vest authority in the Federal Communications Commission 
to regulate common carriers of interstate and foreign communications, to 
regulate radio transmissions and issue licenses for radio stations, and 
to regulate all interstate and foreign communications by wire and radio 
necessary to the accomplishment of the purposes of the Act.

[61 FR 26677, May 28, 1996, as amended at 62 FR 23163, Apr. 29, 1997; 63 
FR 68981, Dec. 14, 1998; 65 FR 59357, Oct. 5, 2000]