[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 47, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 47CFR2.104]



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                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION

 

              CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

 

PART 2_FREQUENCY ALLOCATIONS AND RADIO TREATY MATTERS; GENERAL RULES AND 

REGULATIONS--Table of Contents

 

     Subpart B_Allocation, Assignment, and Use of Radio Frequencies

 

Sec.  2.104  International Table of Frequency Allocations.



    (a) The International Table of Frequency Allocations is subdivided 

into the Region 1 Table (column 1 of Sec.  2.106), the Region 2 Table 

(column 2 of Sec.  2.106), and the Region 3 Table (column 3 of Sec.  

2.106). The International Table is included for informational purposes 

only.

    (b) Regions. For the allocation of frequencies the International 

Telecommunication Union (ITU) has divided the world into three Regions 

\1\ as shown in Figure 1 of this section and described as follows:

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    \1\ It should be noted that where the words ``regions'' or 

``regional'' are without a capital ``R,'' they do not relate to the 

three Regions here defined for purposes of frequency allocation.

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    (1) Region 1. Region 1 includes the area limited on the east by line 

A (lines A, B and C are defined below) and on the west by line B, 

excluding any of the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran which 

lies between these limits. It also includes the whole of the territory 

of Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Russian



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Federation, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, 

Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey and Ukraine and the area to the north 

of the Russian Federation which lies between lines A and C.

    (2) Region 2. Region 2 includes the area limited on the east by line 

B and on the west by line C.

    (3) Region 3. Region 3 includes the area limited on the east by line 

C and on the west by line A, except any of the territory of Armenia, 

Azerbaijan, the Russian Federation, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, 

Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey and Ukraine and 

the area to the north of the Russian Federation. It also includes that 

part of the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran lying outside of 

those limits.

    (4) The lines A, B and C are defined as follows:

    (i) Line A. Line A extends from the North Pole along meridian 

40[deg] East of Greenwich to parallel 40[deg] North; thence by great 

circle arc to the intersection of meridian 60[deg] East and the Tropic 

of Cancer; thence along the meridian 60[deg] East to the South Pole.

    (ii) Line B. Line B extends from the North Pole along meridian 

10[deg] West of Greenwich to its intersection with parallel 72[deg] 

North; thence by great circle arc to the intersection of meridian 

50[deg] West and parallel 40[deg] North; thence by great circle arc to 

the intersection of meridian 20[deg] West and parallel 10[deg] South; 

thence along meridian 20[deg] West to the South Pole.

    (iii) Line C. Line C extends from the North Pole by great circle arc 

to the intersection of parallel 65[deg]30[min] North with the 

international boundary in Bering Strait; thence by great circle arc to 

the intersection of meridian 165[deg] East of Greenwich and parallel 

50[deg] North; thence by great circle arc to the intersection of 

meridian 170[deg] West and parallel 10[deg] North; thence along parallel 

10[deg] North to its intersection with meridian 120[deg] West; thence 

along meridian 120[deg] West to the South Pole.

    (c) Areas. To further assist in the international allocation of the 

radio spectrum, the ITU has established five special geographical areas 

and they are defined as follows:

    (1) The term ``African Broadcasting Area'' means:

    (i) African countries, parts of countries, territories and groups of 

territories situated between the parallels 40[deg] South and 30[deg] 

North;

    (ii) Islands in the Indian Ocean west of meridian 60[deg] East of 

Greenwich, situated between the parallel 40[deg] South and the great 

circle arc joining the points 45[deg] East, 11[deg]30[min] North and 

60[deg] East, 15[deg] North; and

    (iii) Islands in the Atlantic Ocean east of line B, situated between 

the parallels 40[deg] South and 30[deg] North.

    (2) The ``European Broadcasting Area'' is bounded on the west by the 

western boundary of Region 1, on the east by the meridian 40[deg] East 

of Greenwich and on the south by the parallel 30[deg] North so as to 

include the northern part of Saudi Arabia and that part of those 

countries bordering the Mediterranean within these limits. In addition, 

Iraq, Jordan and that part of the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, 

Turkey and Ukraine lying outside the above limits are included in the 

European Broadcasting Area.

    (3) The ``European Maritime Area'' is bounded to the north by a line 

extending along parallel 72[deg] North from its intersection with 

meridian 55[deg] East of Greenwich to its intersection with meridian 

5[deg] West, then along meridian 5[deg] West to its intersection with 

parallel 67[deg] North, thence along parallel 67[deg] North to its 

intersection with meridian 32[deg] West; to the west by a line extending 

along meridian 32[deg] West to its intersection with parallel 30[deg] 

North; to the south by a line extending along parallel 30[deg] North to 

its intersection with meridian 43[deg] East; to the east by a line 

extending along meridian 43[deg] East to its intersection with parallel 

60[deg] North, thence along parallel 60[deg] North to its intersection 

with meridian 55[deg] East and thence along meridian 55[deg] East to its 

intersection with parallel 72[deg] North.

    (4) The ``Tropical Zone'' (see Figure 1 of this section) is defined 

as:

    (i) The whole of that area in Region 2 between the Tropics of Cancer 

and Capricorn.

    (ii) The whole of that area in Regions 1 and 3 contained between the 

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30[deg] North and 35[deg] South with the addition of:

    (A) The area contained between the meridians 40[deg] East and 

80[deg] East of Greenwich and the parallels 30[deg] North and 40[deg] 

North; and

    (B) That part of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya north of parallel 30[deg] 

North.

    (iii) In Region 2, the Tropical Zone may be extended to parallel 

33[deg] North, subject to special agreements between the countries 

concerned in that Region (see Article 6 of the ITU Radio Regulations).

    (5) A sub-Region is an area consisting of two or more countries in 

the same Region.

    (d) Categories of services and allocations. (1) Primary and 

secondary services. Where, in a box of the International Table in Sec.  

2.106, a band is indicated as allocated to more than one service, either 

on a worldwide or Regional basis, such services are listed in the 

following order:

    (i) Services the names of which are printed in ``capitals'' 

(example: FIXED); these are called ``primary'' services; and

    (ii) Services the names of which are printed in ``normal 

characters'' (example: Mobile); these are called ``secondary'' services 

(see paragraph (d)(3) of this section).

    (2) Additional remarks shall be printed in normal characters 

(example: MOBILE except aeronautical mobile).

    (3) Stations of a secondary service:

    (i) Shall not cause harmful interference to stations of primary 

services to which frequencies are already assigned or to which 

frequencies may be assigned at a later date;

    (ii) Cannot claim protection from harmful interference from stations 

of a primary service to which frequencies are already assigned or may be 

assigned at a later date; and

    (iii) Can claim protection, however, from harmful interference from 

stations of the same or other secondary service(s) to which frequencies 

may be assigned at a later date.

    (4) Where a band is indicated in a footnote of the International 

Table as allocated to a service ``on a secondary basis'' in an area 

smaller than a Region, or in a particular country, this is a secondary 

service (see paragraph (d)(3) of this section).

    (5) Where a band is indicated in a footnote of the International 

Table as allocated to a service ``on a primary basis'', in an area 

smaller than a Region, or in a particular country, this is a primary 

service only in that area or country.

    (e) Additional allocations. (1) Where a band is indicated in a 

footnote of the International Table as ``also allocated'' to a service 

in an area smaller than a Region, or in a particular country, this is an 

``additional'' allocation, i.e. an allocation which is added in this 

area or in this country to the service or services which are indicated 

in the International Table.

    (2) If the footnote does not include any restriction on the service 

or services concerned apart from the restriction to operate only in a 

particular area or country, stations of this service or these services 

shall have equality of right to operate with stations of the other 

primary service or services indicated in the International Table.

    (3) If restrictions are imposed on an additional allocation in 

addition to the restriction to operate only in a particular area or 

country, this is indicated in the footnote of the International Table.

    (f) Alternative allocations. (1) Where a band is indicated in a 

footnote of the International Table as ``allocated'' to one or more 

services in an area smaller than a Region, or in a particular country, 

this is an ``alternative'' allocation, i.e. an allocation which 

replaces, in this area or in this country, the allocation indicated in 

the Table.

    (2) If the footnote does not include any restriction on stations of 

the service or services concerned, apart from the restriction to operate 

only in a particular area or country, these stations of such a service 

or services shall have an equality of right to operate with stations of 

the primary service or services, indicated in the International Table, 

to which the band is allocated in other areas or countries.

    (3) If restrictions are imposed on stations of a service to which an 

alternative allocation is made, in addition to the restriction to 

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particular country or area, this is indicated in the footnote.

    (g) Miscellaneous provisions. (1) Where it is indicated in the 

International Table that a service or stations in a service may operate 

in a specific frequency band subject to not causing harmful interference 

to another service or to another station in the same service, this means 

also that the service which is subject to not causing harmful 

interference cannot claim protection from harmful interference caused by 

the other service or other station in the same service.

    (2) Where it is indicated in the International Table that a service 

or stations in a service may operate in a specific frequency band 

subject to not claiming protection from another service or from another 

station in the same service, this means also that the service which is 

subject to not claiming protection shall not cause harmful interference 

to the other service or other station in the same service.

    (3) Except if otherwise specified in a footnote, the term ``fixed 

service'', where appearing in the International Table, does not include 

systems using ionospheric scatter propagation.

    (h) Description of the International Table of Frequency Allocations. 

(1) The heading of the International Table includes three columns, each 

of which corresponds to one of the Regions (see paragraph (b) of this 

section). Where an allocation occupies the whole of the width of the 

Table or only one or two of the three columns, this is a worldwide 

allocation or a Regional allocation, respectively.

    (2) The frequency band referred to in each allocation is indicated 

in the left-hand top corner of the part of the Table concerned.

    (3) Within each of the categories specified in paragraph (d)(1) of 

this section, services are listed in alphabetical order according to the 

French language. The order of listing does not indicate relative 

priority within each category.

    (4) In the case where there is a parenthetical addition to an 

allocation in the International Table, that service allocation is 

restricted to the type of operation so indicated.

    (5) The footnote references which appear in the International Table 

below the allocated service or services apply to more than one of the 

allocated services, or to the whole of the allocation concerned.

    (6) The footnote references which appear to the right of the name of 

a service are applicable only to that particular service.

    (7) In certain cases, the names of countries appearing in the 

footnotes have been simplified in order to shorten the text.



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                      Figure 1 to Sec.  2.104--Map

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[65 FR 4636, Jan. 31, 2000, as amended at 70 FR 46586, Aug. 10, 2005]



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