S.I. No. 173/2000 - Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926 (Section 3) (Exemption of Mobile Satellite Earth Stations For Satellite Personal Communication Systems Operating in Bands Below 1 Ghz (S-Pcs<<1 Ghz)) Order, 2000

I, ETAIN DOYLE, Director of Telecommunications Regulation, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (6) (inserted by section 11 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1972 (No. 5 of 1972)) of section 3 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926 (No. 45 of 1926), and section 4 of the Telecommunications (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1996 (No. 34 of 1996), hereby order as follows:

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“CEPT” means the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations;

“ERC” means the European Radiocommunications Committee of CEPT;

“ECTRA” means the European Committee for Telecommunications Regulatory Affairs of CEPT;

“ETSI” means the European Telecommunications Standards Institute;

“ITU” means the International Telecommunication Union;

“Mobile Earth Station (MES)” means mobile apparatus for wireless telegraphy, to be used while in motion or during halts at unspecified points, which complies with ETSI Performance Specification ETS-300-721, and which operates in frequency bands allocated to the Mobile-Satellite Service;

“Mobile-Satellite Service” means a radiocommunications service between mobile earth stations and one or more space stations;

“ETS-300-721” means European Telecommunication Standard (ETS) providing specifications for the standardisation of the characteristics of Mobile Earth Stations (MESs) providing Low Bit Rate Data Communications (LBRDC) using LEO satellites operating below 1 GHz;

“ERC/DEC/(99)06” means ERC Decision of 10 March 1999 on the harmonised introduction of satellite personal communications systems operating in the bands below 1 GHz (S-PCS<1 GHz);

“S-PCS<1 GHz” means non-geostationary mobile-satellite personal communication systems operating in radio frequency bands below 1 GHz for non-voice applications and for the provision of low bit rate data communication services with regional or global coverage.

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SCHEDULE APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY TO WHICH SECTION 3 OF THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT, 1926 DOES NOT APPLY

Mobile Earth Stations for S-PCS<1 GHz which:—

• (a) operate as part of the ITU named LEOTELCOM-1 low earth orbit satellite system, and

• (b) operate within the frequency bands and under the technical and operational constraints set out in Annex 2 of ERC/DEC/(99)06.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

This Order provides for the exemption of mobile terminals, operating in frequency bands below 1 GHz as part of the ITU named LEOTELCOM-1 satellite personal communication system, from the requirement to be licensed under the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926 .