Future Development of Paging Systems

This document concerns rules and policies for the geographic area licensing of Common Carrier Paging and exclusive 929 MHz Private Carrier Paging, and competitive bidding procedures for auctioning mutually exclusive applications for these licenses. This document also adopts rules concerning the partitioning and disaggregation of paging licenses, and institutes procedures designed to deter application fraud on shared paging channels. The intended effect of this action is to clarify and resolve issues pertaining to the paging service prior to the Commission's auctions of remaining spectrum within that service.