[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 47, Volume 5]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 47CFR101.1]



[Page 607]

 

                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION

 

        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 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]