---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 1.2102"
title: "47"
number: "1.2102"
heading: "Eligibility of applications for competitive bidding."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/1.2102"
---

# §1.2102. Eligibility of applications for competitive bidding.

- (a) **Mutually exclusive initial applications are subject to competitive bidding.**
- (b) **The following types of license applications are not subject to competitive bidding procedures—**
  - (1) Public safety radio services, including private internal radio services used by state and local governments and non-government entities and including emergency road services provided by not-for-profit organizations, that
    - (i) Are used to protect the safety of life, health, or property; and
    - (ii) Are not commercially available to the public;
  - (2) Initial licenses or construction permits for digital television service given to existing terrestrial broadcast licensees to replace their analog television service licenses; or
  - (3) Noncommercial educational and public broadcast stations described under [47 U.S.C. 397(6)](/usc/47/397.md?p=6).
- (c) [Reserved]

## Notes

### Amendments

[59 FR 44293, Aug. 26, 1994, as amended at 60 FR 40718, Aug. 9, 1995; 62 FR 23163, Apr. 29, 1997; 63 FR 10780, Mar. 5, 1998; 79 FR 48528, Aug. 15, 2014]

### Source

Source: 59 FR 44293, Aug. 26, 1994, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. chs. 2, 5, 9, 13; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; 47 U.S.C. 1754, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[59 FR 44293, Aug. 26, 1994, as amended at 60 FR 40718, Aug. 9, 1995; 62 FR 23163, Apr. 29, 1997; 63 FR 10780, Mar. 5, 1998; 79 FR 48528, Aug. 15, 2014]