[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 47, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

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

[CITE: 47CFR22.507]



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                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION

 

                         COMMISSION (CONTINUED)

 

PART 22_PUBLIC MOBILE SERVICES--Table of Contents

 

               Subpart E_Paging and Radiotelephone Service

 

Sec. 22.507  Number of transmitters per station.



    This section concerns the number of transmitters licensed under each 

station authorization in the Paging and Radiotelephone Service, other 

than paging geographic area authorizations.

    (a) Operationally related transmitters. Each station must have at 

least one transmitter. There is no limit to the number of transmitters 

that a station may comprise. However, transmitters within a station 

should be operationally related and/or should serve the same general 

geographical area. Operationally related transmitters are those that 

operate together as a system (e.g., trunked systems, simulcast systems), 

rather than independently.

    (b) Split of large systems. The FCC may split wide-area systems into 

two or more stations for administrative convenience. Except for 

nationwide paging and other operationally related transmitters, 

transmitters that are widely separated geographically are not licensed 

under a single authorization.

    (c) Consolidation of separate stations. The FCC may consolidate 

site-specific contiguous authorizations upon request (FCC Form 601) of 

the licensee, if appropriate under paragraph (a) of this section. Paging 

licensees may include remote, stand-alone transmitters under the single 

system-wide authorization, if the remote, stand-alone transmitter is 

linked to the system via a control/repeater facility or by satellite. 

Including a remote, stand-alone transmitter in a system-wide 

authorization does not alter the limitations provided under Sec. 

22.503(f) on entities other than the paging geographic area licensee. In 

the alternative, paging licensees may maintain separate site-specific 

authorizations for stand-alone or remote transmitters. The earliest 

expiration date of the authorizations that make up the single system-

wide authorization will determine the expiration date for the system-

wide authorization. Licensees must file timely renewal applications for 

site-specific authorizations included in a single system-wide 

authorization request until the request is approved. Renewal of the 

system-wide authorization will be subject to Sec. 1.949 of this 

chapter.

    (d) Replacement of site-by-site authorizations with single 

authorization. After a paging geographic area authorization for a 

channel has been issued, the FCC may, on its own motion, replace the 

authorization(s) of any other licensee (for facilities located within 

that paging geographic area on that channel) with a single replacement 

authorization.



[62 FR 11634, Mar. 12, 1997, as amended at 63 FR 68945, Dec. 14, 1998; 

64 FR 33784, June 24, 1999]