Title 47 — Telecommunications
Chapter 14 — Making Opportunities for Broadband Investment and Limiting Excessive and Needless Obstacles to Wireless
§ 1505. Unlicensed services in guard bands
Statutory text
In general
After public notice and comment, and in consultation with the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and the head of each affected Federal agency (or a designee thereof), with respect to frequencies allocated for Federal use, the Commission shall adopt rules that permit unlicensed services where feasible to use any frequencies that are designated as guard bands to protect frequencies allocated after , by competitive bidding under section 309(j) of this title, including spectrum that acts as a duplex gap between transmit and receive frequencies.
Limitation
The Commission may not permit any use of a guard band under this section that would cause harmful interference to a licensed service or a Federal service.
Rule of construction
Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the Commission or the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information from otherwise making spectrum available for licensed or unlicensed use in any frequency band in addition to guard bands, including under section 1502 of this title, consistent with their statutory jurisdictions.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2018
Pub. L. 115–141 div. P title VI § 611 · 132 Stat. 348
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 1505
(Pub. L. 115–141, div. P, title VI, § 611, Mar. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 1109.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 115–141, div. P, title VI, § 611, Mar. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 1109.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 611. The cost accounting standards promulgated under chapter 15 of title 41, United States Code shall not apply with respect to a contract under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program established under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Pub. L. 115–141, div. P, title VI, § 611, , 132 Stat. 1109.)