Technologie i telekomunikacja · 08/12/2000

Maritime Communications

In this document, the Commission proposes to amend the rules governing Automated Maritime Telecommunications Systems (AMTS) and high seas public coast stations. The Commission proposes, among other things, to designate licensing regions and authorize one licensee for each currently unassigned AMTS frequency block on a geographic basis; to allow partitioning and disaggregation for AMTS geographic licensees, disaggregation for site-based AMTS licensees, and partitioning for most high seas public coast station licensees; and to establish competitive bidding procedures to resolve mutually exclusive applications for AMTS and high seas public coast spectrum. These proposed rules should increase the number and types of communications services available to the maritime community.