§1505 Unlicensed Services in Guard Bands

Summary

For frequencies assigned to Federal use, the Commission must make rules — after public notice and comment and after talking with the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and the heads of affected Federal agencies — to let unlicensed services use guard-band frequencies when possible. This includes spectrum that acts as a duplex gap and applies to bands protecting frequencies assigned by auction after March 23, 2018. The Commission cannot allow any guard-band use that would cause harmful interference to a licensed service or a Federal service. This rule does not stop the Commission or the Assistant Secretary from making other spectrum available for licensed or unlicensed use under their authority.