---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 765f"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "765f"
heading: "Satellite auctions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/765f"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Communications Satellite System"
  - "Subchapter VI — Communications Competition and Privatization"
  - "Part C — Deregulation and Other Statutory Changes"
---

# §765f. Satellite auctions


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the [Commission](/usc/47/702.md?p=10) shall not have the authority to assign by competitive bidding [orbital locations](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-9) or spectrum used for the provision of international or global satellite communications services. The President shall oppose in the [International Telecommunication Union](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-6) and in other bilateral and multilateral fora any assignment by competitive bidding of [orbital locations](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-9) or spectrum used for the provision of such services.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–624, title VI, § 647, as added Pub. L. 106–180, § 3, Mar. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 57.)