Broadband PCS service areas are Major Trading Areas (MTAs) and Basic Trading Areas (BTAs) as defined in this section. MTAs and BTAs are based on the Rand McNally 1992 Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide, 123rd Edition, at pages 38-39 (“BTA/MTA Map”). Rand McNally organizes the 50 states and the District of Columbia into 47 MTAs and 487 BTAs. The BTA/MTA Map is available is available on the FCC's website at www.fcc.gov/auctions through the “Maps” submenu.
(a) The MTA service areas are based on the Rand McNally 1992 Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide, 123rd Edition, at pages 38-39, with the following exceptions and additions:
(1) Alaska is separated from the Seattle MTA and is licensed separately.
(2) Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are licensed as a single MTA-like area.
(3) Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands are licensed as a single MTA-like area.
(4) American Samoa is licensed as a single MTA-like area.
(b) The BTA service areas are based on the Rand McNally 1992 Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide, 123rd Edition, at pages 38-39, with the following additions licensed separately as BTA-like areas: American Samoa; Guam; Northern Mariana Islands; Mayagüez/Aguadilla-Ponce, Puerto Rico; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the United States Virgin Islands. The Mayagüez/Aguadilla-Ponce BTA-like service area consists of the following municipios: Adjuntas, Aguada, Aguadilla, Añasco, Arroyo, Cabo Rojo, Coamo, Guánica, Guayama, Guayanilla, Hormigueros, Isabela, Jayuya, Juana Díaz, Lajas, Las Marías, Mayagüez, Maricao, Maunabo, Moca, Patillas, Peñuelas, Ponce, Quebradillas, Rincón, Sabana Grande, Salinas, San Germán, Santa Isabel, Villalba, and Yauco. The San Juan BTA-like service area consists of all other municipios in Puerto Rico.
[59 FR 32854, June 24, 1994; 59 FR 40835, Aug. 10, 1994; 63 FR 68952, Dec. 14, 1998; 65 FR 53636, Sept. 5, 2000; 85 FR 64407, Oct. 13, 2020]
Notes of Decisions
W. Radio Servs. Co. v. Qwest Corp., 678 F.3d 970 (9th Cir. 2012).
“See 47 C.F.R. § 24.202 (a). 13 . After these 2001 revisions, the regulation provides, in pertinent part: For purposes of this subpart, telecommunications traffic means: (1) Telecommunications traffic exchanged between a LEC and a telecommunications carrier other than a CMRS…”
Iowa Network Servs., Inc. v. Qwest Corp., 385 F. Supp. 2d 850 (S.D. Iowa 2005).
“701 (b)(2), with MTAs determined pursuant to 47 C.F.R. § 24.202 . "IntraMTA” wireless traffic originates and terminates in the same MTA.”
Verizon Wireless (yaw) LLC v. Kolbeck, 529 F. Supp. 2d 1081 (D.S.D. 2007).
· cites it 2× “Local telecommunications traffic also includes any wireless to wireline telecommunications traffic that originates and terminates in the same major trading area as defined in 47 CFR § 24.202 (a) as of January 1, 2004; (3) “Nonlocal (sic) telecommunications traffic,” any wireline…”
W. Radio Servs. Co. v. Qwest Corp., 734 F. Supp. 2d 1139 (D. Or. 2010).
“originates and terminates within the same [MTA]____” The MTA service areas “are based on the Rand McNally 1992 Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide, 123rd Edition, at pages 38-39____” 47 C.F.R. § 24.202 (a). Here, the interconnection agreement provides that reciprocal compensation…”
Pub. Serv. Tel. Co. v. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 755 F. Supp. 2d 1263 (N.D. Ga. 2010).
“The parties agree that PSTC’s local exchange service area and the Macon and Columbus exchanges are within the same “Major Trading Area” (or “MTA”), as established by 47 C.F.R. § 24.202 . 47 C.F.R. § 51.701 establishes that traffic exchanged between local exchange carriers…”
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