Telecommunications Act
(TCA)

¹ Any per­son wish­ing to ob­tain a ra­diocom­mu­nic­a­tions li­cence must:

a.⁷⁶

have the ne­ces­sary tech­nic­al ca­pa­cit­ies and, in­so­far as re­quired for us­ing the rel­ev­ant fre­quen­cies (Art. 22 para. 2 let. c), hold the rel­ev­ant pro­fi­ciency cer­ti­fic­ate;

b.⁷⁷

un­der­take to com­ply with the ap­plic­able le­gis­la­tion, in par­tic­u­lar this Act, the RTVA⁷⁸, their im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions, and the li­cence con­di­tions.

² Sub­ject to any in­ter­na­tion­al ob­lig­a­tions to the con­trary, the li­cens­ing au­thor­ity may re­fuse to grant a li­cence to un­der­tak­ings in­cor­por­ated un­der for­eign law un­less re­cip­roc­al rights are gran­ted.

³ A li­cence shall be gran­ted only if, hav­ing re­gard to the na­tion­al fre­quency al­loc­a­tion plan, enough fre­quen­cies are avail­able.

⁴ The grant­ing of a ra­diocom­mu­nic­a­tions li­cence must not elim­in­ate or con­sti­tute a ser­i­ous obstacle to ef­fect­ive com­pet­i­tion un­less an ex­cep­tion can be jus­ti­fied on grounds of eco­nom­ic ef­fi­ciency. Where the is­sue of the elim­in­a­tion or ser­i­ous re­stric­tion of ef­fect­ive com­pet­i­tion must be as­sessed, the li­cens­ing au­thor­ity shall con­sult the Com­pet­i­tion Com­mis­sion.⁷⁹