The Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 2001
1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 28th March 2001.
2.
(a)
in Part I of Schedule 3—
(i)
““CDMA” means Call Division Multiple Access as defined in the Radio Regulations;”and
(ii)
““TDD” means Time Division Duplex as defined in the Radio Regulations; and”;
(b)
“PART IIITYPE 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.
Meteor burst data systems licensed for use on the following frequencies—
39.025 MHz
39.050 MHz
46.400 MHz
46.950 MHz
46.975 MHz
3.
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)
(d)
Universal Mobile Telephony System radiotelephones (UMTS):
1900–1920 MHz (BTx/MTx in TDD)
1920–1980 MHz (MTx)
2110–2170 MHz (BTx)
4.
Public access mobile radio systems licensed for use in the following frequency bands—
174–208 MHz
410–430 MHz
5.
CDMA spread spectrum data asset tracking systems licensed for use in the following frequency bands—
177–191 MHz (MTx) paired with
866–868 MHz (BTx)
6.
Public two-way paging systems licensed for use in the following frequency bands—
169.4–169.8 MHz (MTx) paired with
870–871 MHz (BTx).
Common Base Station Operator Licence
Common base station systems licensed for use in the following frequency bands—
55–56 MHz
81–87 MHz
162–167 MHz
171–191 MHz
209–215 MHz
440–449 MHz.”;
(c)
in Part IV of Schedule 3—
(i)
“ETS 300 339 published by ETSI in June 1993.”;
(ii)
“Meteor burst data systems
ETS 300 113 published by ETSI in July 1996.”;
(iii)
“UMTS
IR 2019—UK Radio Interface Requirement for Third Generation Mobile Services published by RA in January 2001.”; and
(iv)
“CDMA spread spectrum data asset tracking systems
IR 2036—UK Radio Interface Requirement for Mobile Asset Tracking Services published by RA in November 2000.
Public two-way paging systems
IR 2010—UK Radio Interface Requirement for Public Paging Services published by RA in March 2000.”;
(d)
in Part I of Schedule 5—
(i)
“Schedule; and” shall be substituted for “Schedule.” at the end of the definition of “prescribed apparatus”; and
(ii)
““Thuraya” means Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company whose registered office is situated at P.O. Box 33344, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.”;
(e)
“Thuraya
Land Mobile Earth Stations in the Thuraya Land Mobile-Satellite Service which are designed or adapted to—
(a)
send and receive messages by wireless telegraphy via that Service to or from any Land Earth Station in that Service; and
(b)
be capable of transmitting in the frequency bands 1625.5–1645.5 MHz and 1646.5–1660.5 MHz and receiving in the frequency bands 1525.0–1544.0 MHz or 1545.0–1559.0 MHz and operating at a power level not exceeding the maximum specified in the table set out in Part IV.”; and
(f)
“Thuraya
Type of Thuraya station
Maximum power (eirp)
ETSI standard
Date of publication
Hand held
7.0 dBW
EN 301 681
December 1999”.
These Regulations amend the Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/930, as amended by S.I. 2000/1012) in order to exempt additional wireless telegraphy equipment from the requirement to be licensed under section 1(1) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 (c. 54). Such equipment are stations established or used and apparatus installed or used in relation to the following systems or services:
meteor burst data systems;
Universal Mobile Telephony System;
CDMA spread spectrum data asset tracking systems;
public two-way paging systems; and
Thuraya Land Mobile-Satellite Service.
A full regulatory impact assessment report of the effect that these Regulations would have on the costs to business is available to the public from the Radiocommunications Agency Library at Wyndham House, 189 Marsh Wall, London E14 9SX (Tel: 020 7211 0211) or on the Agency’s Internet web site at (www.radio.gov.uk) Copies of the report have also been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament.