Telecommunications Act
(TCA)

¹ The ra­diocom­mu­nic­a­tions fre­quency spec­trum may be freely used sub­ject to com­pli­ance with the reg­u­la­tions on use.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may provide that the use of cer­tain fre­quen­cies is only per­mit­ted:

a.

with a li­cence from OF­COM or, in the cases un­der Art­icle 22a, Com­Com;

b.

after giv­ing no­tice to OF­COM;

c.

with a pro­fi­ciency cer­ti­fic­ate.

³ It shall im­pose re­stric­tions un­der para­graph 2 solely:

a.

to avoid ra­dio in­ter­fer­ence;

b.

to guar­an­tee the tech­nic­al qual­ity of tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vices and oth­er ra­dio ap­plic­a­tions;

c.

to guar­an­tee ef­fi­cient use of the ra­diocom­mu­nic­a­tions fre­quency spec­trum; or

d.

in cases in which oth­er le­gis­la­tion or in­ter­na­tion­al treat­ies provide that the fre­quency spec­trum may only be used with the ap­prov­al of the re­spons­ible au­thor­ity.

⁴ In the case of fre­quency bands the al­loc­a­tion of which is the re­spons­ib­il­ity of the armed forces or civil de­fence in ac­cord­ance with the na­tion­al fre­quency al­loc­a­tion plan, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall not im­pose any re­stric­tions in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2.

⁵ It shall spe­cify the reg­u­la­tions on use and the re­quire­ments for grant­ing pro­fi­ciency cer­ti­fic­ates.