The Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) Regulations 1999

Regulation 3(1)

SCHEDULE 3 NETWORK USER STATIONS

PART I INTERPRETATION

In this Schedule–

“BABT” means the British Approvals Board for Telecommunications(1);

“BTx” means Base Transmit, the frequency on which a base station transmits and a user station receives;

“MPTs 1324 and 1326” means Department of Trade and Industry Performance Specifications 1324 and 1326 referred to in Part IV of this Schedule;

“MTx” means Mobile Transmit, the frequency on which a user station transmits and a base station receives;

“NTR 13” means Designation No. 95/037 NTR 13 given under section 22(6) of the 1984 Act by the Secretary of State on 14th December 1995;

“prescribed apparatus” means a user station as defined below;

“relevant network” means a telecommunication system consisting exclusively of stations established and used under and in accordance with a licence, which has been granted under section 1(1) of the 1949 Act by the Secretary of State and is of a type specified in Part III of this Schedule; and

“user station” means a mobile station for wireless telegraphy designed or adapted–

(a)

to be connected by wireless telegraphy to one or more relevant networks; and

(b)

to be used solely for the purpose of sending and receiving messages conveyed by a relevant network by means of wireless telegraphy.

PART II ADDITIONAL TERMS, PROVISIONS AND LIMITATIONS

The prescribed apparatus shall be subject to and comply with the Common Technical Regulations referred to in Part IV of this Schedule as appropriate, and in the absence of a Common Technical Regulation applying to such apparatus, the prescribed apparatus–

(a) is approved for the time being by the Secretary of State under section 84 of the 1984 Act for the purposes of these Regulations;

(b) is approved to the ETSI standards or the draft ETSI standards referred to in Part IV as appropriate by a national administration following type testing at a test laboratory;

(c) complies with the requirements of MPT 1324 or MPT 1326 as appropriate in relation to prescribed apparatus taken into service before section 84 of the 1984 Act came into force(2); or

(d) complies with the BABT performance standards referred to in Part IV as appropriate,

provided that paragraph (a) above shall not apply in relation to prescribed apparatus situated in the Bailiwick of Jersey.

PART III TYPE OF LICENCE GRANTED UNDER SECTION 1(1) OF THE 1949 ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND USE OF RELEVANT NETWORKS

Public Mobile Operator Licences

1.  Public mobile data systems licensed for use in the following frequency bands–

• 105–165 MHz

• 174–208 MHz

• 420–470 MHz

• (for non-voice only operation)

2.  Cellular radiotelephone systems licensed for use in the following services on the relevant frequency bands–

(a) cellular radiotelephones:

Extended Total Access Communications System (ETACS):	872–888 MHz (MTx)
	917–933 MHz (BTx)
Total Access Communications System (TACS):	890–905 MHz (MTx)
	935–950 MHz (BTx)

(b) digital cellular radiotelephones:

Global System for Mobile communications (GSM):	905–915 MHz (MTx)
	950–960 MHz (BTx)

(c) digital cellular PCN radiotelephones:

Personal Communications Network (PCN):	1805–1880 MHz (MTx)
	1710–1785 MHz (BTx)

3.  Public access mobile radio systems licensed for use in the following frequency bands–

• 174–208 MHz

• 410–430 MHz

Common Base Station Operator Licence

Common base station systems licensed for use in the following frequency bands–

• 81–87 MHz

• 162–167 MHz

• 440–449 MHz.

PART IV COMMON TECHNICAL REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS

GSM

• CTR 005—Commission Decision of 21st December 1993 on a common technical regulation for the general attachment requirements for public pan-European cellular digital land-based mobile communications(3), including the ETSI Technical Basis for Regulation (TBR) TBR 005 published in November 1993.

• CTR 009—Commission Decision of 21st December 1993 on a common technical regulation for the telephony application requirements for public pan-European cellular digital land-based mobile communications(4), including the ETSI Technical Basis for Regulation TBR 009 published in November 1993.

• I-ETS 300 020–1 (Edition 2) published by ETSI in January 1995.

• TBR 019 published by ETSI in October 1996.

• TBR 020 published by ETSI in October 1996.

Public mobile data systems

• Final Draft pr ETS 300 113 published by ETSI in March 1996.

• ETS 300 113 published by ETSI in July 1996.

ETACS/TACS

• Department of Trade and Industry Performance Specification MPT 1324 published in 1983 and revised and reprinted in July 1994.

• NTR13.

PCN

• BABT Special Investigation Test Schedule (SITS) 92/50 published in March 1991 and revised and reprinted in June 1995.

• Final Draft pr TBR 031: 1996–02 published by ETSI in February 1996.

• Final Draft pr TBR 032: 1996–02 published by ETSI in February 1996.

Public access mobile radio systems

• ETS 300 086 published by ETSI in January 1991.

• ETS 300 113 published by ETSI in July 1996.

• I-ETS 300 219 published by ETSI in October 1993.

• Department of Trade and Industry Performance Specification MPT 1326 published in November 1985 and revised and reprinted in May 1993.

Common base station systems

• ETS 300 086

• ETS 300 113

• MPT 1326.

(1)

BABT was appointed by the Secretary of State on 10th September 1990 pursuant to section 25 of the 1984 Act for the purpose of approving telecommunication apparatus under section 22 of that Act.

(2)

Section 84 of the 1984 Act came into force on 16th July 1984 pursuant to S.I. 1984/876.

(3)

OJ No. L8, 12.1.94, p. 20.

(4)

OJ No. L8, 12.1.94, p. 23.