47 U.S.C. § 1507 — Unlicensed spectrum policy
submitted 8 years ago by Pub. L. 115-141 to r/title-47-TELECOMMUNICATIONS · 166 words · no verdicts yet
United States policy is to maximize the public benefit from spectrum, advance wireless broadband innovation and investment, and make spectrum available for unlicensed use. The Commission must assess such allocation efforts against security and user needs and the public interest. The section gives no extra protection from harmful interference.
(a) Statement of policy. United States policy is: (1) to maximize the benefit to the people of the United States from United States spectrum resources; (2) to advance innovation and investment in wireless broadband services; and (3) to promote spectrum policy that makes radio-frequency bands available without licenses to meet consumer demand for unlicensed wireless broadband operations.
(b) Commission* responsibilities. The Commission must ensure that its efforts to allocate and assign radio-frequency bands for unlicensed use to meet demand for unlicensed wireless broadband operations are reasonable and in the public interest, after considering the future needs of homeland security, national security, and other spectrum users.
(c) Rule of construction. Nothing in this section gives unlicensed users, or users licensed by rule under part 96 of title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations, any additional right to protection from harmful interference.
It is the policy of the United States—
to maximize the benefit to the people of the United States of the spectrum resources of the United States;
to advance innovation and investment in wireless broadband services; and
to promote spectrum policy that makes available on an unlicensed basis radio frequency bands to address consumer demand for unlicensed wireless broadband operations.
The Commission shall ensure that the efforts of the Commission related to spectrum allocation and assignment made available on an unlicensed basis radio frequency bands to address demand for unlicensed wireless broadband operations if doing so is, after taking into account the future needs of homeland security, national security, and other spectrum users—
reasonable; and
in the public interest.
Nothing in this section confers any additional rights on unlicensed users or users licensed by rule under part 96 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, to protection from harmful interference.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 115–141, div. P, title VI, § 617, Mar. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 1112.)
- 2018Enacted · Pub. L. 115-141 · 132 Stat. 1112
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