---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 101.1017"
title: "47"
number: "101.1017"
heading: "Requesting regulatory status."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/101.1017"
---

# §101.1017. Requesting regulatory status.

- (a) **Initial applications.** An applicant will specify on FCC Form 601 if it is requesting authorization to provide services on a common carrier basis, a non-common carrier basis, or on both a common carrier and non-common carrier basis.
- (b) **Amendment of pending applications.**
  - (1) Any pending application may be amended to:
    - (i) Change the carrier status requested, or
    - (ii) Add to the pending request in order to obtain both common carrier and non-common carrier status in a single license.
  - (2) Amendments to change, or add to, the carrier status in a pending application are minor amendments pursuant to [§ 1.927](/cfr/47/1.927.md) of this chapter.
- (c) **Modification of license.**
  - (1) A licensee may modify a license to:
    - (i) Change the carrier status authorized, or
    - (ii) Add to the status authorized in order to obtain both common carrier and non-common carrier status in a single license.
  - (2) Applications to change, or add to, the carrier status in a license are modifications not requiring prior Commission authorization filed under [§ 1.927](/cfr/47/1.927.md) of this chapter. If the change results in the discontinuance, reduction, or impairment of an existing service, the licensee is also governed by § [101.305(b)](/cfr/47/101.305.md?p=b) or [(c)](/cfr/47/101.305.md?p=c) and submits the application under [§ 1.927](/cfr/47/1.927.md) of this chapter in conformance with the time frames and requirements of §§ [101.305 (b)](/cfr/47/101.305.md?p=b) or [(c)](/cfr/47/101.305.md?p=c).

## Notes

### Amendments

[62 FR 23168, Apr. 29, 1997, as amended at 63 FR 68984, Dec. 14, 1998]

### Source

Source: 62 FR 23168, Apr. 29, 1997, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 26677, May 28, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[62 FR 23168, Apr. 29, 1997, as amended at 63 FR 68984, Dec. 14, 1998]