[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 47, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2004]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 47CFR25.135]



[Page 286]

 

                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION

 

                    CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

                         COMMISSION (CONTINUED)

 

PART 25_SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS--Table of Contents

 

                   Subpart B_Applications and Licenses

 

Sec. 25.135  Licensing provisions for earth station networks in the 

non-voice, non-geostationary mobile-satellite service.



    (a) Each applicant for a blanket earth station license in the non-

voice, non-geostationary mobile-satellite service shall demonstrate that 

transceiver operations will not cause unacceptable interference to other 

authorized users of the spectrum, based on existing system information 

publicly available at the Commission at the time of filing, and will 

comply with operational conditions placed upon the systems with which 

they are to operate in accordance with Sec. 25.142(b). This 

demonstration shall include a showing as to all the technical 

parameters, including duty cycle and power limits, under which the 

individual user transceivers will operate.

    (b) Transceiver units associated with the non-voice, non-

geostationary mobile-satellite service may not be operated on civil 

aircraft. All portable or hand-held transceiver units (including 

transceiver units installed in other devices that are themselves 

portable or hand-held) having a receiver operating in the 137-138 MHz 

band shall bear the following statement in a conspicuous location on the 

device: ``This device may not be operated while on board a civil 

aircraft. It must be turned off at all times while on board such an 

aircraft.'' This subsection shall not apply to transceiver units whose 

receivers are incapable of radiating in the 108-137 MHz frequency bands.

    (c) Transceiver units in this service are authorized to communicate 

with and through U.S. authorized space stations only. No person without 

an FCC license for such operation may transmit to a space station in 

this service from anywhere in the United States except to receive 

service from the holder of a pertinent FCC blanket license or from 

another party with the permission of such a blanket licensee.

    (d) The holder of an FCC blanket license for operation of 

transceivers for communication via a non-voice, non-geostationary 

mobile-satellite system shall be responsible for operation of any such 

transceiver to receive service provided by the blanket licensee or 

provided by another party with the blanket licensee's consent. Operators 

of non-voice, non-geostationary mobile-satellite systems shall not 

transmit communications to or from user transceivers in the United 

States unless such communications are authorized under a service 

contract with the holder of a pertinent FCC blanket license or under a 

service contract another party with authority for such transceiver 

operation delegated by such a blanket licensee.



[58 FR 68059, Dec. 23, 1993, as amended at 69 FR 5710, Feb. 6, 2004]