---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 927"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "927"
heading: "Existing allocation and transfer authority retained"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/927"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — National Telecommunications and Information Administration"
  - "Subchapter II — Transfer of Auctionable Frequencies"
---

# §927. Existing allocation and transfer authority retained

- (a) **Additional reallocation—** Nothing in this subchapter prevents or limits additional reallocation of spectrum from the Federal Government to other users.
- (b) **Implementation of new technologies and services—** Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter—
  - (1) the [Secretary](/usc/47/901.md?p=a-3) may, consistent with [section 903(e) of this title](/usc/47/903.md?p=e), at any time allow frequencies allocated on a primary basis for Federal Government use to be used by non-Federal licensees on a mixed-use basis for the purpose of facilitating the prompt implementation of new technologies or services and for other purposes; and
  - (2) the [Commission](/usc/47/901.md?p=a-4) shall make any [allocation](/usc/47/921.md?p=1) and licensing decisions with respect to such frequencies in a timely manner and in no event later than the date required by [section 157 of this title](/usc/47/157.md).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–538, title I, § 117, as added Pub. L. 103–66, title VI, § 6001(a)(3), Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 386.)