---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 24.404"
title: "47"
number: "24.404"
heading: "Eligibility."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/24.404"
---

# §24.404. Eligibility.

- (a) **General.** Authorizations will be granted upon proper application if:
  - (1) The applicant is qualified under the applicable laws and the regulations, policies and decisions issued under the laws, including [§ 24.12](/cfr/47/24.12.md);
  - (2) There are frequencies available to provide satisfactory service; and
  - (3) **The public interest, convenience or necessity would be served by a grant.**
- (b) **Alien ownership.** A narrowband PCS authorization to provide Commercial Mobile Radio Service may not be granted to or held by:
  - (1) **Any alien or the representative of any alien.**
  - (2) **Any corporation organized under the laws of any foreign government.**
  - (3) Any corporation of which more than one-fifth of the capital stock is owned of record or voted by aliens or their representatives or by a foreign government or representative thereof or any corporation organized under the laws of a foreign country.
  - (4) Any corporation directly or indirectly controlled by any other corporation of which more than one-fourth of the capital stock is owned or voted by aliens, their representatives, or by a foreign government or representative thereof, or by any corporation organized under the laws of a foreign country, if the Commission finds that the public interest will be served by the refusal or revocation of such license. A Narrowband PCS authorization to provide Private Mobile Radio Service may not be granted to or held by a foreign government or a representative thereof.

## Notes

### Amendments

[59 FR 26749, May 24, 1994, as amended at 61 FR 55581, Oct. 28, 1996; 65 FR 35855, June 6, 2000]

### Source

Source: 59 FR 26749, May 24, 1994, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 301, 302a, 303, 309 and 332.

### Source

Source: 58 FR 59183, Nov. 8, 1993, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 59 FR 18499, Apr. 19, 1994.

### Amendments

[59 FR 26749, May 24, 1994, as amended at 61 FR 55581, Oct. 28, 1996; 65 FR 35855, June 6, 2000]