47 CFR § 101.1501 - Service areas.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t47/s101.1501"
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title: "47 CFR § 101.1501 - Service areas."
title_number: 47
title_name: "Telecommunication"
section_number: "101.1501"
section_name: "Service areas."
chapter_name: "FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION"
subchapter_number: "D"
subchapter_name: "SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES"
part_number: "101"
part_name: "FIXED MICROWAVE SERVICES"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "47 U.S.C. 154, 303."
regulatory_source: "61 FR 26677, May 28, 1996, unless otherwise noted."
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# 101.1501 Service areas.

The 70/80/90 GHz bands are licensed on the basis of non-exclusive nationwide licenses. There is no limit to the number of non-exclusive nationwide licenses that may be granted for these bands, and these licenses will serve as a prerequisite for registering individual point-to-point links. In the 71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz bands, nationwide non-exclusive licenses also serve as a blanket license for air-to-air and ship-to-ship operations, and as a prerequisite to register ground-to-air (GTA) stations and to operate associated GTA and air-to-ground (ATG) transmissions; and as a prerequisite to register shore stations and aerostat relay stations and to operate associated ship-to-shore, shore-to-ship, shore-to-aerostat, aerostat-to-ship, and aerostat-to-shore transmissions.

[89 FR 33261, Apr. 29, 2024]