§  25.225   Geographic Service Requirements for 17/24 GHz Broadcasting
Satellite Service.

   (a) Each operator of a 17/24 GHz BSS space station that is used to
   provide video programming directly to consumers in the 48 contiguous
   United States (CONUS) must provide comparable service to Alaska and
   Hawaii, unless such service is not technically feasible or not
   economically reasonable from the authorized orbital location.

   (b) Each operator of a 17/24 GHz BSS space station subject to paragraph
   (a) of this section must design and configure its space station to be
   capable of providing service to Alaska and Hawaii, that is comparable
   to the service that such satellites will provide to CONUS subscribers,
   from any orbital location capable of providing service to either Alaska
   or Hawaii to which it may be located or relocated in the future.

   (c) If an operator of a 17/24 GHz BSS space station that is used to
   provide video programming directly to consumers in the United States
   relocates or replaces a 17/24 GHz BSS space station at a location from
   which service to Alaska and Hawaii had been provided by another 17/24
   GHz BSS space station, the operator must use a space station capable of
   providing at least the same level of service to Alaska and Hawaii as
   previously provided from that location.

   [ 72 FR 50033 , Aug. 29, 2007]