§  20.12   Resale and roaming.

   (a)(1) Scope of Manual Roaming and Resale . Paragraph (c) of this
   section is applicable to providers of Broadband Personal Communications
   Services (part 24, subpart E of this chapter), Cellular Radio Telephone
   Service (part 22, subpart H of this chapter), and specialized Mobile
   Radio Services in the 800 MHz and 900 MHz bands (included in part 90,
   subpart S of this chapter) if such providers offer real-time, two-way
   switched voice or data service that is interconnected with the public
   switched network and utilizes an in-network switching facility that
   enables the provider to re-use frequencies and accomplish seamless
   hand-offs of subscriber calls. The scope of paragraph (b) of this
   section, concerning the resale rule, is further limited so as to
   exclude from the requirements of that paragraph those Broadband
   Personal Communications Services C, D, E, and F block licensees that do
   not own and control and are not owned and controlled by firms also
   holding cellular A or B block licenses.

   (2) Scope of Automatic Roaming . Paragraph (d) of this section is
   applicable to CMRS carriers if such carriers offer real-time, two-way
   switched voice or data service that is interconnected with the public
   switched network and utilizes an in-network switching facility that
   enables the carrier to re-use frequencies and accomplish seamless
   hand-offs of subscriber calls. Paragraph (d) of this section is also
   applicable to the provision of push-to-talk and text-messaging service
   by CMRS carriers.

   (b) Resale. The resale rule is applicable as follows:

   (1) Each carrier subject to paragraph (b) of this section shall not
   restrict the resale of its services, unless the carrier demonstrates
   that the restriction is reasonable.

   (2) The resale requirement shall not apply to customer premises
   equipment, whether or not it is bundled with services subject to the
   resale requirement in this paragraph.

   (3) This paragraph shall cease to be effective five years after the
   last group of initial licenses for broadband PCS spectrum in the
   1850–1910 and the 1930–1990 MHz bands is awarded; i.e. , at the close
   of November 24, 2002.

   (c) Manual Roaming . Each carrier subject to paragraph (a)(1) of this
   section must provide mobile radio service upon request to all
   subscribers in good standing to the services of any carrier subject to
   paragraph (a)(1) of this section, including roamers, while such
   subscribers are located within any portion of the licensee's licensed
   service area where facilities have been constructed and service to
   subscribers has commenced, if such subscribers are using mobile
   equipment that is technically compatible with the licensee's base
   stations.

   (d) Automatic Roaming . Upon a reasonable request, it shall be the duty
   of each host carrier subject to paragraph (a)(2) of this section to
   provide automatic roaming to any technologically compatible home
   carrier, outside of the requesting home carrier's home market, on
   reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms and conditions.

   [ 64 FR 61027 , Nov. 9, 1999, as amended at  65 FR 58482 , Sept. 29, 2000;
    72 FR 50074 , Aug. 30, 2007]