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 Reference Information Center, Consumer and
   Governmental Affairs Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, 445
   12th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20554.

   (b) The following additions will be available for licensing separately
   as BTA-like areas: American Samoa; Guam; Northern Mariana Islands; San
   Juan, Puerto Rico; Mayagu ez/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;
    64 FR 60726 , Nov. 8, 1999;  67 FR 13225 , Mar. 21, 2002]