Part 3CATEGORIES OF SERVICE AND ALLOCATIONS

PART 3—CATEGORIES OF SERVICE AND ALLOCATIONS

Primary, Permitted and Secondary Services

7. (1) Where, in a box of the Table in Part 5 of this Spectrum Plan, a band is indicated as allocated to more than one service, such services are listed in the following order:

(a) services, the names of which are printed in “capitals” (example: FIXED) which are called “primary” services;

(b) services, the names of which are printed in “capitals between oblique strokes” (example: /RADIOLOCATION/) which are called “permitted” services;

(c) services, the names of which are printed in “normal characters” (example: Mobile) which are called “secondary” services.

(2) Additional remarks are printed in normal characters (example: MOBILE except aeronautical mobile).

(3) Permitted and primary services are of equal status, except that the primary service, as compared with the permitted service, has prior choice of frequencies.

(4) Stations of a secondary service are of a lower status than primary and permitted services.

(NOTE: Stations of a secondary service:

(a) shall not cause harmful interference to stations of primary or permitted services to which frequencies are already assigned, or to which frequencies may be assigned at a later date;

(b) cannot claim protection from harmful interference from stations of a primary or permitted service to which frequencies are already assigned, or may be assigned at a later date; and

(c) can claim protection, however, from harmful interference from stations of the same or other secondary service(s) to which frequencies may be assigned at a later date.)

(5) Where a band is indicated in a footnote of the Table as allocated to a service “on a secondary basis”, or in an area smaller than a Region, or in a particular country, this is a secondary service.

(6) Where a band is indicated in a footnote of the Table as allocated to a service “on a primary basis”, or “on a permitted basis” in an area smaller than a Region, or in a particular country, this is a primary service or a permitted service only in that area or country.

Additional Allocations

8. (1) Where a band is indicated in a footnote of the Table as “also allocated” to a service in an area smaller than a Region, or in a particular country, this is an additional allocation, i.e., an allocation which is added in this area or in this country to the service or services which are indicated in the Table.

(2) If the footnote does not include any restriction on the service or services concerned, apart from the restriction to operate only in a particular area or country, stations of this service or these services shall have equal status with stations of the other primary service or services indicated in the Table.