[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 195 (Thursday, October 8, 1998)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 54073-54077]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-26991]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Parts 1, 2, 20, 95, and 97
[WT Docket No. 98-169; WT Docket No. 95-47; FCC 98-228]
Frequencies in the 218-219 MHz Band
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: This rule is part of the Commission's comprehensive
examination of its regulations governing the licensing and use of
frequencies in the 218-219 MHz band, allocated to the Interactive Video
and Data Service (IVDS) in the Personal Radio Services. In this rule,
the Commission addresses issues regarding the IVDS installment payment
portfolio and redesignates this service as the ``218-219 MHz Service,''
and resolves matters raised in petitions for reconsideration.
EFFECTIVE DATE: November 9, 1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob Allen at (202) 418-0660 (Auctions
& Industry Analysis Division) or James Moskowitz at (202) 418-0680
(Public Safety & Private Wireless Division), Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Order, and (MO&O), in WT Docket No. 98-
169, RM-8951, adopted September 15, 1998, released September 17, 1998,
is available for inspection and copying during normal business hours in
the FCC Dockets Branch, Room 230, 1919 M Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
The complete text may be purchased from the Commission's copy
contractor, International Transcription Service, Inc., 1231 20th
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, (202) 857-3800.
Synopsis of Order and Memorandum Opinion and Order
I. Introduction And Background
1. IVDS is a point-to-multipoint, multipoint-to-point, short
distance communications service in which licensees may provide
information or services to individual subscribers within a service
area, and subscribers may provide interactive responses. See 47 CFR
95.803(a). These systems use radio channels in the 218-219 MHz band for
fixed and mobile services between the licensee's cell transmitter
station (CTS) and the subscriber's response transmitter unit (RTU), or
between two CTSs.
2. IVDS was established in response to a petition for rulemaking
filed by TV Answer, Inc. (TV Answer) (now known
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as EON Corporation (EON)), a company proposing a system that would
provide interactivity capabilities to television viewers. See Notice of
Proposed Rule Making, 56 FR 10222 (March 11, 1991) (``Allocation
Notice''). In the Report and Order, 57 FR 8272 (March 9, 1992) (``1992
Allocation Report and Order'') the Commission established a frequency
allocation at 218-219 MHz for IVDS, allowing a 500 kilohertz frequency
segment to two licensees in each of the 734 cellular-defined service
areas (306 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and 428 Rural Service
Areas (RSAs)). When the Commission adopted the service rules governing
IVDS in the 1992 Allocation Report and Order, it decided, inter alia,
to regulate IVDS as a private radio service, and to establish licensing
criteria such as a five-year license term, restrictions on ownership of
both frequency segments in a given market, and construction benchmarks.
The Commission designed technical requirements that would permit the
spectrum allocation for IVDS as sought by TV Answer and reduce the
potential for harmful interference to nearby operations, including
reception of TV Channel 13 broadcasts in the 210-216 MHz band. The
Commission later modified the IVDS construction benchmark scheme,
Report and Order, 61 FR 1286 (January 19, 1996), (``One-Year
Construction Report and Order''), and, in its Mobility Report and
Order, the Commission authorized use of this spectrum to provide mobile
as well as fixed operation.
3. In the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (1993 Budget
Act), Congress authorized the Commission to award licenses for certain
spectrum-based services by competitive bidding (i.e., auctions). In the
Second Report and Order, 59 FR 22980 (May 4, 1994) (``Competitive
Bidding Second Report and Order''), on recon., Second Memorandum
Opinion and Order, 59 FR 44272 (August 26, 1994), the Commission
determined that IVDS licenses should be awarded through competitive
bidding, and prescribed certain general rules and procedures to be used
for all auctionable services. In the Fourth Report and Order, 59 FR
24947 (May 13, 1994) (``Competitive Bidding Fourth Report and Order''),
the Commission established specific auction procedures for IVDS,
setting forth auction methodology and payment procedures, and
incorporating by reference many of the general rules and procedures set
forth in the Competitive Bidding Second Report and Order, such as the
installment payment and associated grace period rules. In addition, the
Competitive Bidding Fourth Report and Order established provisions such
as installment payments to ensure that small businesses, rural
telephone companies, and businesses owned by members of minority groups
and women (collectively, ``designated entities'') are afforded a
meaningful opportunity to participate in IVDS auctions. More recently,
in the Third Report and Order, 63 FR 2315 (January 15, 1998) (``Part 1
Third Report and Order''), the Commission streamlined the general
competitive bidding procedures to provide a uniform set of Part 1
provisions to be applied to all auctionable services, including IVDS.
The new Part 1 license-related payment rules apply to existing IVDS
licensees effective March 16, 1998.
4. The first eighteen IVDS system licenses (two licenses in nine of
the top ten MSAs) were awarded by lottery held September 15, 1993, and
granted on March 28, 1994. Subsequently, utilizing the procedures
adopted in the Competitive Bidding Fourth Report and Order, the
Commission held the first auction for IVDS licenses on July 28 and 29,
1994, covering the remaining 594 MSA licenses. On January 18, 1995 and
February 28, 1995, the Commission conditionally granted licenses to the
winning bidders, subject to the bidder meeting the terms of the auction
rules, including down payment requirements.
5. On September 4, 1996, Petitioners filed a Petition for
Rulemaking, RM-8951, seeking a change in the IVDS license term from
five to ten years, with a corresponding extension of installment
payment amortization. The Petition for Rulemaking was later amended
with requests for regulatory relief on other issues such as
construction benchmarks, ownership limitations, and technical
restrictions. The Commission received no comments in opposition to the
Petition for Rulemaking.
6. On December 4, 1996, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
(``Bureau'') announced a February 18, 1997 start date for an auction of
981 IVDS licenses, consisting of the 856 RSA licenses, and 125 MSA
licenses being reauctioned because the first auction winners were found
in default. Then, on January 29, 1997, the Bureau announced
postponement of the IVDS auction, ``to give the Commission an
opportunity to consider [the] Petition for Rulemaking and numerous
informal requests of potential bidders and license holders seeking to
obtain additional flexibility for the service.''
II. Order
7. In authorizing the use of auctions to award licenses, Congress
directed the Commission to ensure that designated entities are given
the opportunity to participate in the provision of spectrum-based
services. In accordance with this statutory mandate, the Commission's
competitive bidding rules for the first auction of IVDS licenses
allowed winning bidders that qualified as small businesses to pay 20
percent of their net bid price(s) as a down payment and the remaining
80 percent in installments over the five-year term of the license(s),
with interest only paid for the first two years, and interest and
principal payments amortized over the remaining three years. The first
interest payment, due March 31, 1995, was deferred to June 30, 1995
pursuant to administrative action by the Office of Managing Director.
The Bureau further stayed the date for making the initial interest
payment pending Commission resolution of licensees' substantive
requests related to the payment requirements. The stay was lifted on
January 5, 1996, with licensees required to make the interest payments
back-due from March 31, 1995 and June 30, 1995. Although the interest
payments due September 30, 1995 and December 31, 1995 remained
uncollected (hereinafter, the ``Suspension Interest''), the Commission
denied requests to ``set-back'' the payment schedule. Therefore, the
first installment payment consisting of principal and interest was due
March 31, 1997.
8. Pursuant to the installment payment rules in effect for payments
due prior to March 16, 1998, any licensee whose installment payment was
more than 90 days past due was in default, unless a ``grace period''
request was filed prior to the default date. Specifically, in
anticipation of default on one or more installment payments, a licensee
could request that the Commission grant a three- to six-month grace
period during which no installment payments need be made. The licensee
would not be declared in default during the pendency of such request.
If the Commission (or the Bureau upon delegated authority) granted the
request, the licensee would not be considered in default during the
grace period, and the interest that accrued while no payments are made
was amortized by adding it to the other interest payments over the
remaining term of the license. Upon expiration of any grace period
without successful resumption of payment, or upon default with no such
request submitted, the license was cancelled automatically.
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9. In the Part 1 Third Report and Order, the Commission modified
the grace period provisions as applied to all existing licensees who
are currently paying for their licenses in installments. Thus,
beginning with installment payments due on or after March 16, 1998, a
licensee that does not make payment on an installment obligation when
due will automatically have an additional 90 days in which to submit
its required payment without being considered delinquent, but will be
assessed a late payment fee equal to five percent of the amount of the
past due payment. If the licensee fails to make the required payment
within the first 90-day period, the licensee automatically will be
provided a subsequent 90 days in which to submit its required payment
without being considered delinquent, this time subject to a second,
additional late payment fee equal to ten percent of the amount of the
past due payment. The licensee is not required to submit a filing to
take advantage of these provisions. A licensee who fails to make
payment within 180 days after an installment payment due date
sufficient to pay all past-due late payment fees, interest, and
principal, will be deemed to have failed to make full payment of its
obligation and the license shall automatically cancel without further
Commission action. The late payment fee and automatic cancellation
provisions described above do not apply to licensees with properly
filed grace period requests until such time as the Commission (or the
Bureau upon delegated authority) addresses these grace period requests.
10. As of March 16, 1998, the effective date of the revised grace
period rule, the IVDS installment payment portfolio consisted of
licensees that have remitted their requisite installment payments,
licensees that have not remitted their requisite installment payments
but have properly filed grace period requests under the former
installment payment rules, and licensees that have not remitted their
requisite installment payments and do not have grace period requests on
file in conformance with the former rules. Petitioners request that the
Commission forego acting on the pending grace period requests and waive
the late payment fee and automatic cancellation provisions of the
revised installment payment rules for IVDS licensees until resolution
of the proposals set forth in the Petition for Rulemaking, RM-8951, in
an initial Report and Order. In addition, the Commission has before it
several requests from IVDS licensees for broader relief associated with
the installment payment program. Some licensees seek more modest
relief, generally associated with the pendency of this rulemaking.
Other licensees request various types of payment deferral and/or
restructuring.
11. The Commission believes that widespread cancellation of IVDS
licenses through operation of the late payment fee and automatic
cancellation provisions of the revised grace period rule would be
inconsistent with many of the proposals under consideration in the
Petition for Rulemaking, RM-8951. Therefore, the Commission will grant
Petitioners' request to the extent that it will not act on grace period
requests until the rulemaking is resolved. Since the late payment fee
and automatic cancellation provisions of the revised grace period rule
do not apply to licensees with properly filed grace period requests
until such time as those grace period requests are addressed, there is
no reason to grant a service-wide waiver of those provisions as
Petitioners request. The Commission also believes that IVDS licensees
that have remitted adequate installment payments as of March 16, 1998,
and thus did not have grace period requests on file when the revised
rules took effect, should not be penalized through the operation of the
late payment fee and automatic cancellation provisions of the revised
grace period rule, insofar as the Commission will need time to evaluate
the issues raised in the Petition for Rulemaking, RM-8951. Therefore,
for those licensees, the Commission suspends the operation of the late
payment fee and automatic cancellation provisions of the revised grace
period rule during the pendency of the rulemaking. In sum, the
Commission will not assess late payment fees or cancel any IVDS license
for which a properly filed grace period request is pending, or for
which adequate installment payments were made as of March 16, 1998,
until resolution of the issues raised in the Petition for Rulemaking,
RM-8951, in an initial Report and Order. Licensees that have been
delinquent in payment without properly filed grace period requests are
in default of their payment obligations and will be notified by the
Bureau regarding debt collection procedures.
12. All other requests for payment deferral or restructuring that
are inconsistent with this Order, are hereby denied. The Commission
concludes that it is reluctant to adopt any solutions that will only
postpone these payment difficulties and further prolong uncertainty. In
that regard, the Commission reminds licensees that there is no
suspension of the requirement to make quarterly payments under its
installment payment rules, irrespective of its actions today, and that
the Commission will strictly enforce the late payment fee and automatic
cancellation provisions of the revised grace period rule beginning with
the first payment due upon resolution of the issues raised in the
Petition for Rulemaking, RM 89-51, in an initial Report and Order.
I. Memorandum Opinion And Order
13. On May 16, 1996, the Commission adopted the Mobility Report and
Order, in which the Commission amended its rules to authorize mobile in
addition to fixed operation for IVDS RTUs operated with an effective
radiated power (ERP) of 100 milliwatts or less. The Commission decided
that the output power of these mobile RTUs could be measured in terms
of ``mean power'' rather than ``peak power,'' and the Commission
eliminated the requirement that such units utilize automatic power
controls. In addition, the Commission eliminated the IVDS duty cycle
requirement for RTU operations outside of TV Channel 13 predicted Grade
B contours. Finally, the Commission permitted direct CTS-to-CTS
communications on a primary basis, enabling licensees to transmit
point-to-point communications between fixed points within their
systems. The Commission found that these amendments would provide
additional flexibility for licensees to meet the communications needs
of the public, which the record indicated may include commercial data
distribution and inventory monitoring services, without increasing the
likelihood of interference. Timely petitions for reconsideration of the
Mobility Report and Order were filed by Euphemia Banas, et al. (Banas)
and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB); and ITV/IALC timely
filed a Request for Clarification. The Commission addresses these
filings below.
A. Service Designation
14. As a threshold matter, given the regulatory flexibility
provided to 218-219 MHz band licensees in the Mobility Report and
Order, the Commission believes the service designation ``Interactive
Video and Data Service'' no longer describes the breadth of different
services evolving in the 218-219 MHz band. In addition to radio-based
interactive television services, the Commission has noted a myriad of
services that licensees can offer, including commercial data
applications such as transmission of database information to point-of-
sale terminals,
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home banking or downloading of data to personal computers, VCRs, or
other consumer electronic products. The Commission is also aware of
other uses of this spectrum, including two-way telemetry services such
as remote meter reading and energy management operations, inventory
monitoring services, a link between automatic teller machines and a
bank's central computer, alarm security functions, cable television
theft deterrence, and stock transaction or quotation services. Indeed,
this list of applications is not exhaustive. Therefore, on its own
motion, the Commission redesignates this service as the ``218-219 MHz
Service,'' to eliminate any confusion regarding the service's existing
capabilities. This change in nomenclature is procedural in nature under
the Administrative Procedure Act, and consequently, the requirement of
notice and comment rulemaking does not apply.
B. Operation of Mobile RTUs
15. As the Commission stated in the Mobility Report and Order, by
definition, mobility makes it more likely that an RTU will transiently
operate in areas where interference may result. The Commission
therefore recognized that allowing unrestricted mobile operations may
promote flexibility within the service, but it also increases the
interference potential with respect to the operation of licensees in
other services.
16. The Commission finds Baras' claim that the 100 milliwatt power
limit raises the cost and amount of time necessary to construct a
network as unpersuasive because 218-219 MHz Service licensees are not
required to provide service to mobile RTUs--it is merely one type of
service licensees may provide. Moreover, the Commission expects that
licensees will factor additional cost considerations into their
decision making process concerning what services to provide their
subscribers and how much to charge for them. The Commission also
disagrees with NAB's request to measure output in terms of peak power
rather than mean power. The Commission purposefully chose the mean
power measurement for these low power mobile RTUs because it concluded
that a mean power standard would provide licensees with greater
economic flexibility and efficiency in equipment design, while only
insignificantly increasing the risk of interference to TV Channel 13
operations. Nonetheless, the combination of suggestions in the
petitions for reconsideration and associated comments leads the
Commission to question whether the 100 milliwatt ERP limit may be
unnecessarily low. As the record does not provide the empirical data to
support a reasonable alternative, the Commission dismisses petitions
with respect to the mobile RTU power limit issue and will reexamine the
issue as part of the record of the Petition for Rulemaking, RM-8951.
C. Duty Cycle
17. In the Mobility Report and Order, the Commission eliminated the
duty cycle requirement for: (1) fixed RTUs operating outside a TV
Channel 13 predicted Grade B contour; and (2) mobile RTUs operating in
system service areas that do not overlap with a TV Channel 13 predicted
Grade B contour. In doing so, the Commission noted that in such areas,
TV Channel 13 operations have no expectation of protection from
interference, thereby rendering the duty cycle restriction unnecessary,
and furthermore, that the duty cycle limitation was an additional
safeguard against interference rather than one of the principal ways
the Commission intended to minimize the interference potential of the
218-219 MHz Service.
18. The Commission believes that NAB's request to expand the area
of RTU duty cycle limits at least ten miles further in all directions
would burden 218-219 MHz Service technical operations with no attendant
public interest benefits. The Commission therefore denies NAB's request
that it expand this interference protection requirement to include an
area far outside the TV Channel 13 Grade B contour because it is
inconsistent with its goal of providing flexibility to licensees to
design their systems in the most efficient way. The Commission also
denies NAB's request for expanded duty cycle regulations in
anticipation of advanced television implementation. This request was
fully considered in the Mobility Report and Order, in which the
Commission stated that it expects that whatever system is adopted will
generally be more immune to interference from signals in adjacent
spectrum than is the case with current analog TV systems.
D. Limitations on Types of Service
i. CTS-to-CTS Communications and Section 95.861
19. Households receiving over-the-air television broadcasts are
provided interference protection from any component of a 218-219 MHz
Service system pursuant to Section 95.861 of the Commission's rules.
Specifically, under the rule, a 218-219 MHz Service licensee must: (1)
notify all households within its service area located within a TV
Channel 13 station Grade B predicted contour of the potential for
interference to television reception from the 218-219 MHz Service
system; (2) upon request, provide and install a filter, free of charge,
to any household within a TV Channel 13 station Grade B predicted
contour that experiences interference due to a component CTS or RTU;
and (3) investigate and eliminate interference to television
broadcasting and reception due to a component CTS or RTU within 30 days
of receipt of a written interference complaint, and if it fails to do
so, the CTS or RTU causing the interference must discontinue operation.
20. The Commission believes that its rules regarding 218-219 MHz
Service interference protection requirements are clear. The Commission
nonetheless reiterates its policy in response to NAB's request for
clarification that the fixed point-to-point direct CTS-to-CTS
communications authorized in the Mobility Report and Order are subject
to these general interference protection regulations. Specifically, all
transmissions related to the 218-219 MHz Service, including the CTS-to-
CTS communications now permitted under Sec. 95.805(b) of the
Commission's rules, are subject to the Sec. 95.861 general interference
protections described above.
2. Use of Public Switch Network (PSN) or Commercial Mobile Radio
Services (CMRS) for Internal Control Purposes
21. Under the Commission's current rules, mobile RTUs are
prohibited from interconnecting with the PSN or CMRS providers.
22. A licensee's use of the PSN or CMRS providers for internal
control purposes is not an ``interconnected service.'' Since the
Commission's rules do not limit the method by which a 218-219 MHz
Service licensee can configure internal control communications, the
Commission clarifies that the mobile RTU prohibition on interconnection
with the PSN or CMRS providers does not limit a 218-219 MHz Service
licensee's use of the PSN or CMRS for internal control purposes. This
clarification does not affect the current prohibition on PSN or CMRS
interconnection by mobile RTUs operated by 218-219 MHz Service
licensees. The Commission previously considered and rejected a
contention that the 218-219 MHz band should be developed primarily as
an interactive service for use in conjunction with the
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broadcast industry. In doing so, the Commission reasoned that
consumers, through market forces, should determine the variety of uses
for this allocation, whether broadcast-related or otherwise.
ii. Annual Reviews
23. Finally, NAB requested that the Commission undertake annual
review of the services provided by 218-219 MHz Service licensees to
assure that licensees are not using their facilities for unintended
purposes or for services duplicative of services provided by other
licensed communications operators. This request is contrary to current
FCC policy, which allows the marketplace to develop efficient uses for
spectrum and encourages competition between varied communications
operators. The Commission believes that such a requirement would
constitute unnecessary and burdensome regulation on 218-219 MHz Service
licensees and places an undue burden on the agency. Further, such a
requirement is unprecedented for a personal radio service, and would
serve no regulatory purpose in light of the Commission's proposals
regarding permissible uses of this spectrum.
II. Ordering Clauses
24. Authority for issuance of this Order, and Memorandum Opinion
and Order is contained in Sections 4(i), 257, 303(b), 303(g), 303(r),
309(j), and 332(a) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47
U.S.C. 154(i), 257, 303(b), 303(g), 303(r), 309(j), and 332(a).
25. Accordingly, it is ordered that this Order, and Memorandum
Opinion and Order is adopted. It is further ordered that the
Commission's Office of Public Affairs, Reference Operations Division,
shall send a copy of this Order, and Memorandum Opinion and Order,
including the IRFA, to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small
Business Administration.
26. It is further ordered that all references to ``Interactive
Video and Data Service'' in 47 CFR Parts 1, 2, 20, 95, and 97 are to be
removed and, in their place, the words ``218-219 MHz Service'' are to
be substituted. Pursuant to 47 CFR 0.331(d), the Commission hereby
instructs the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau to make conforming
edits to the Code of Federal Regulations consistent with this Ordering
Clause.
27. It is further ordered that the request of the Petitioners for
general waiver of Sec. 1.2110(f)(4) of the Commission's rules, as
amended by the Part 1 Third Report and Order, is denied. However, a
suspension of the application of Sec. 1.2110(f)(4)(i)-(iv), limited to
those 218-219 MHz Service licensees that have remitted adequate
installment payments as of March 16, 1998, will remain in effect
pending Commission resolution of the issues raised in the Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking in an initial Report and Order.
28. It is further ordered that all other payment relief requests
are denied to the extent that they are inconsistent with the actions
described above.
29. It is further ordered that, as described above, the petition
for reconsideration of the Mobility Report and Order, to the extent
that it is addressed in the Order is dismissed.
30. It is further ordered that, to the extent described above, the
Commission clarifies issues raised in a petition for partial
reconsideration and a request for clarification.
31. It is further ordered that the petition for partial
reconsideration is dismissed or denied in all other respects.
32. It is further ordered that WT Docket No. 95-47 is terminated.
List of Subjects
47 CFR Part 1
Administrative practice and procedure.
47 CFR Part 2
Communications equipment, Radio
47 CFR Part 20
Communications common carriers, Radio
47 CFR Parts 95 and 97
Radio.
Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Deputy Secretary.
Rule Changes
Parts 1, 2, 20, 95, and 97 of Chapter I of Title of the Code of
Federal Regulations are amended as follows:
PART 1--PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
1. The authority citation for part 1 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 79 et.seq.; 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 154(j),
155, 225 and 303(r).
2. All references to ``Interactive Video and Data Service,''
``Interactive Video and Data Service (IVDS)'', or ``IVDS'' are to be
removed and, in their place, the words ``218-219 MHz Service'' are to
be substituted.
PART 2--FREQUENCY ALLOCATIONS AND RADIO TREATY MATTERS; GENERAL
RULES AND REGULATIONS
3. The authority citation for part 2 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 302, 303, 307 and 336 unless otherwise
noted.
4. All references to ``Interactive Video and Data Service,''
``Interactive Video and Data Service (IVDS)'', or ``IVDS'' are to be
removed and, in their place, the words ``218-219 MHz Service'' are to
be substituted.
PART 20--COMMERCIAL MOBILE RADIO SERVICES
5. The authority citation for part 20 continues to read as follows:
Authority: Secs. 4, 251, 252, 303, and 332, 48 Stat. 1066, 1062,
as amended; 47 U.S.C. 154, 251, 252, 253, 254, 303, and 332, unless
otherwise noted.
6. All references to ``Interactive Video and Data Service,''
``Interactive Video and Data Service (IVDS)'', or ``IVDS'' are to be
removed and, in their place, the words ``218-219 MHz Service'' are to
be substituted.
PART 95--PERSONAL RADIO SERVICES
7. The authority citation for part 95 would continues to read as
follows:
Authority: Secs. 4, 303, 48 Stat. 1066, 1082, as amended; 47
U.S.C. 154, 303.
8. All references to ``Interactive Video and Data Service,''
``Interactive Video and Data Service (IVDS)'', or ``IVDS'' are to be
removed and, in their place, the words ``218-219 MHz Service'' are to
be substituted.
PART 97--AMATEUR RADIO SERVICES
9. The authority citation for part 97 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 48 Stat. 1066, 1082, as amended; 47 U.S.C. 154, 303.
Interpret or apply 48 stat. 1064-1068, 1081-1105, as amended; 47
U.S.C. 151-155, 301-609, unless otherwise noted.
10. All references to ``Interactive Video and Data Service,''
``Interactive Video and Data Service (IVDS)'', or ``IVDS'' are to be
removed and, in their place, the words ``218-219 MHz Service'' are to
be substituted.
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