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FCC 22.912
Revised as of October 1, 2008
Goto Year:2007 |
2009
Sec. 22.912 Service area boundary extensions.
This section contains rules governing service area boundary (SAB)
extensions. SAB extensions are areas outside of the cellular market
boundary, but within the service area as calculated using the methods of
Sec. 22.911(a). Cellular systems must be designed to comply with the rules in
this section. Applications proposing systems that would not comply with the
rules in this section are defective. Service within SAB extensions is not
protected from interference or capture under Sec. 22.911(d) unless and until the
area within the SAB extension becomes a part of the cellular geographic
service area (CGSA) in accordance with Sec. 22.911(c).
(a) De minimis extensions. Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (b)
and (d) of this section, SABs may be extended into adjacent cellular markets
if such extensions are de minimis , are demonstrably unavoidable for
technical reasons of sound engineering design, and do not extend into the
CGSA of any other licensee's cellular system on the same channel block, any
part of the Gulf of Mexico Exclusive Zone (GMEZ), or into any adjacent
cellular market on a channel block for which the five year build-out period
has expired.
(b) Contract extensions. Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (d) of
this section, cellular system licensees may enter into contracts to allow
SAB extensions as follows:
(1) The licensee of any cellular system may, at any time, enter into a
contract with an applicant for, or licensee of, a cellular system on the
same channel block in an adjacent cellular market, to allow one or more SAB
extensions into its CGSA only (not into unserved area).
(2) The licensee of the first authorized cellular system on each channel
block in the Gulf of Mexico Service Area (GMSA) may enter into a contract
with an applicant for, or licensee of, a cellular system on the same channel
block in an adjacent cellular market or in the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Zone
(GMCZ), to allow one or more SAB extensions into the Gulf of Mexico
Exclusive Zone.
(3) The licensee of the first authorized cellular system on each channel
block in each cellular market may enter into a contract with an applicant
for or licensee of a cellular system on the same channel block in an
adjacent cellular market, to allow one or more SAB extensions into its CGSA
and/or unserved area in its cellular market, during its five year build-out
period.
(b) Contract extensions. Except as restricted in paragraph (d) of this
section, licensees of cellular systems on the same channel block in adjacent
cellular markets may, at any time, enter into contracts with applicants or
other licensees to allow SAB extensions into their CGSA only (not into
unserved areas). Except as restricted in paragraph (d) of this section,
licensees of the first authorized cellular systems on the same channel block
in adjacent cellular markets may agree to allow SAB extensions into their
CGSA and/or unserved areas in their cellular markets during the five year
build-out period of the market into which the SAB extends.
(c) Same applicant/licensee. Except as restricted in paragraph (d) of this
section, licensees of cellular systems that are also an applicant or
licensee on the same channel block in adjacent cellular markets may, at any
time, allow or propose SAB extensions from their adjacent market system into
their CGSH only (not into unserved areas). Except as restricted in paragraph
(d) of this section, licensees of the first authorized cellular systems that
are also an applicant or licensee on the same channel block in adjacent
cellular markets may allow or propose SAB extensions from their adjacent
market system into their CGSA and/or unserved areas in their cellular
markets during the five year build-out period of the market into which the
SAB extends.
(d) Unserved area systems. Phase I initial cellular applications must not
propose SAB extensions. Phase I sole major modification applications and
Phase II applications may propose SAB extensions, subject to the conditions
in this section.
[ 59 FR 59507 , Nov. 17, 1994, as amended at 68 FR 42295 , July 17, 2003]
Goto Section: 22.911 | 22.913
Goto Year: 2007 |
2009
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