Sec. 21.924  Service areas.

    (a) MDS service areas are regional Basic Trading Areas (BTAs) which 
are based on the Rand McNally 1992 Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide, 
123rd Edition, at pages 38-39. The BTA Map is available for public 
inspection at the public reference room, Multipoint Distribution 
Service, Video Services Division, Mass Media Bureau, Room 207, 2033 M 
Street, NW., Washington, DC.
    (b) The following additions will be available for licensing 
separately as BTA-like areas: American Samoa; Guam; Northern Mariana 
Islands; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Mayaguez/Aguadilla-Ponce, Puerto Rico; 
and the United States Virgin Islands.
    (c) The area within the boundaries of a BTA to which a BTA 
authorization holder may provide Multipoint Distribution Service 
excludes the protected service areas of any incumbent MDS stations and 
previously proposed and authorized ITFS facilities, including registered 
receive sites.
[ 60 FR 36555 , July 17, 1995, as amended at  60 FR 57367 , Nov. 15, 1995]