Sec.  22.901   Cellular service requirements and limitations.

   The licensee of each cellular system is responsible for ensuring that its
   cellular system operates in compliance with this section.

   (a) Each cellular system must provide either mobile service, fixed service,
   or a combination of mobile and fixed service, subject to the requirements,
   limitations and exceptions in this section. Mobile service provided may be
   of any type, including two way radiotelephone, dispatch, one way or two way
   paging, and personal communications services (as defined in part 24 of this
   chapter). Fixed service is considered to be primary service, as is mobile
   service.  When  both  mobile  and fixed service are provided, they are
   considered to be co primary services. In providing cellular services, each
   cellular system may incorporate any technology that meets all applicable
   technical requirements in this part.

   (b) Until February 18, 2008, each cellular system that provides two-way
   cellular mobile radiotelephone service must—

   (1) Maintain the capability to provide compatible analog service (“AMPS”) to
   cellular  telephones  designed  in conformance with the specifications
   contained   in  sections  1  and  2  of  the  standard  document  ANSI
   TIA/EIA–553–A–1999  Mobile Station—Base Station Compatibility Standard
   (approved October 14, 1999); or, the corresponding portions, applicable to
   mobile stations, of whichever of the predecessor standard documents was in
   effect at the time of the manufacture of the telephone. This incorporation
   by  reference  was approved by the Director of the Federal Register in
   accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51. Copies of the standard
   may be purchased from Global Engineering Documents, 15 Inverness Way East,
   Englewood, CO 80112–5704 (or via the internet at http://global.ihs.com) .
   Copies  are  available  for  inspection  at the Federal Communications
   Commission, 445 12th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20554, or at the National
   Archives  and  Records  Administration  (NARA). For information on the
   availability  of  this  material at NARA, call 202–741–6030, or go to:
   http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/code_of_federal_regulations/ibr_loc
   ations.html. 

   (2)  Provide AMPS, upon request, to subscribers and roamers using such
   cellular telephones while such subscribers are located in any portion of the
   cellular system's CGSA where facilities have been constructed and service to
   subscribers  has  commenced. See also  Sec. 20.12 of this chapter. Cellular
   licensees must allot sufficient system resources such that the quality of
   AMPS provided, in terms of geographic coverage and traffic capacity, is
   fully adequate to satisfy the concurrent need for AMPS availability.

   [ 67 FR 77191 , Dec. 17, 2002, as amended at  69 FR 18803 , Apr. 9, 2004]