§ 22.907   Coordination of channel usage.

   Licensees in the Cellular Radiotelephone Service must coordinate, with
   the appropriate parties, channel usage at each transmitter location
   within 121 kilometers (75 miles) of any transmitter locations
   authorized to other licensees or proposed by other applicants, except
   those with mutually exclusive applications. Licensees utilizing systems
   employing a frequency re-use factor of 1 (universal re-use) are exempt
   from this requirement.

   (a) Licensees must cooperate and make reasonable efforts to resolve
   technical problems that may inhibit effective and efficient use of the
   cellular radio spectrum; however, licensees are not obligated to
   suggest extensive changes to or redesign other licensees' cellular
   systems. Licensees must make reasonable efforts to avoid blocking the
   growth of other cellular systems that are likely to need additional
   capacity in the future.

   (b) If technical problems are addressed by an agreement or operating
   agreement between the licensees that would result in a reduction of
   quality or capacity of either system, the licensees must notify the
   Commission by updating FCC Form 601.

   [ 59 FR 59507 , Nov. 17, 1994, as amended at  63 FR 68951 , Dec. 14, 1998;
    82 FR 17582 , Apr. 12, 2017]

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