Regulation 5 - Provision of radiocommunication services
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Regulation 5 - Provision of radiocommunication services

  1 Each Contracting Government undertakes to make available, as it deems practical and necessary either individually or in co-operation with other Contracting Governments, appropriate shore-based facilities for space and terrestrial radiocommunication services having due regard to the recommendations of the Organization. footnote These services are:

  • .1 a radiocommunication service utilizing geostationary satellites in the maritime mobile-satellite service;

  • .2 a radiocommunication service utilizing polar orbiting satellites in the mobile-satellite service;

  • .3 the maritime mobile service in the bands between 156 MHz and 174 MHz;

  • .4 the maritime mobile service in the bands between 4,000 kHz and 27,500 kHz; and

  • .5 the maritime mobile service in the bands between 415 kHz and 535 kHzfootnote and between 1,605 kHz and 4,000 kHz.

  2 Each Contracting Government undertakes to provide the Organization with pertinent information concerning the shore-based facilities in the maritime mobile service, mobile-satellite service and maritime mobile-satellite service, established for sea areas which it has designated off its coasts. footnote

Parent topic: Part B - Undertakings by Contracting Governments footnote
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