WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 1949

Notice of variation of Radio Paging (Standard) Licence

The Secretary of State hereby gives notice, pursuant to section 1(4) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949, to holders of the Radio Paging (Standard) Licence (“the Licence”) that, with effect from 1st February 1998, each Licence shall be varied as follows:   1. Those frequencies specified in the schedule(s) to such licence between 26.2375 and 26.8655 MHz, 26.9780 and 27.2620 MHz, 49.0000 and 49.4125 MHz, and the frequency 49.4875 MHz, shall be replaced by the following frequencies:

26.2375 MHz	26.4100 MHz	26.4375 MHz	26.4625 MHz
26.5450 MHz	26.5880 MHz	26.6155 MHz	26.6695 MHz
26.7255 MHz	26.8155 MHz	26.8650 MHz	26.8655 MHz
49.0000 MHz	49.0125 MHz	49.0250 MHz	49.0375 MHz
49.0500 MHz	49.0625 MHz	49.0750 MHz	49.0875 MHz
49.1000 MHz	49.1125 MHz	49.1250 MHz	49.1375 MHz
49.1500 MHz	49.1625 MHz	49.1750 MHz	49.1875 MHz
49.2000 MHz	49.2125 MHz	49.2250 MHz	49.2375 MHz
49.2500 MHz	49.2750 MHz	49.3000 MHz	49.3125 MHz
49.3250 MHz	49.3375 MHz	49.3500 MHz	49.3625 MHz
49.3750 MHz	49.3875 MHz	49.4000 MHz	49.4125 MHz
49.4875 MHz
459.0500 MHz	459.1000 MHz

  Licensees affected by this variation are permitted to use any of the above frequencies for one-way tone, numeric and/or alphanumeric paging. The use of speech is not permitted. Licensees are no longer required to inform the Radiocommunications Agency when they use the frequencies.   2. A new clause permitting the interconnection of paging systems with private and/or public telephone networks shall be added to the schedule(s): “The use of full Private (PBX/PABX) and Public (PSTN) Telephone Interconnect facilities is authorised on this service at all times. Equipment comprising the interconnect unit must be BABT approved.”   BABT is the British Approvals Board for Telecommunications. R. Louth, on behalf of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. 26th January 1998.