Narrowband Personal Communications Services; Competitive Bidding

This document adopts a number of modifications to the Commission's existing narrowband Personal Communications Services (PCS) rules. These include the use of Major Trading Areas for future licensing, the establishment of a "substantial service" alternative to the current construction benchmarks, and modifications to certain provisions of the narrowband PCS competitive bidding rules. The Commission also eliminates the narrowband PCS spectrum aggregation limit and adopts partitioning and disaggregation rules. The Commission believes that the rule modifications it adopts will improve the efficiency of spectrum use, reduce the regulatory burden on spectrum users, encourage competition, and promote service to the largest feasible number of users.