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If you're not a License Guard subscriber, and you'd like us to file your Construction Notice, you may complete and submit the form on this page.  However, if your license is not subscribed to License Guard you will be invoiced for this service.  If you're not responding to a mailed notice from Atlas, you must complete every blank in the form.
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Learning More About Construction / Coverage Requirements
Wondering why you received a notice from Atlas?  At some point in the past, at your request, Atlas has filed an application for a new FCC license, or a modification to an existing license, and you elected to subscribe to our License Guard program to receive the notice you received!  No one receives notices from Atlas unless they have chosen too.  We do not solicit via mail.  This subscription was also paid for at the time of subscription and no money is due for Atlas to file this required compliance for you.  All we need is your signature and verification of our information on record and we will do the rest!

More information about Construction / Coverage Requirements follows on this page.  And the FCC offers this article: http://wireless.fcc.gov/licensing/const-req/uls_auto_termination.pdf to further inform the public about this subject.

Technically, it is the frequencies on a license... line by line... that are subject to being "Constructed".  To the FCC, the term "constructed" means the frequencies are in use as planned and described on the license they granted.  The notice of construction filed with them is confirmation that this is true.  Therefore, failure to notify them is admission that the frequencies are not in use and are available to be assigned to other needy users.  When a notice is not filed, the frequencies are placed into a termination cycle, as we'll describe next.  Although in many cases the frequencies subject to the construction notification comprise the entire license, it is common for licenses to have some frequencies terminated while others (that were already on the license when the newer ones were added) are not subject to termination.  So, the license may not be terminated, but recent modifications to the existing license are at risk.

Once your FCC license is granted, you must notify the Commission you are operational. This is called a Notification of Construction and is required of all licensees within a year of the effective date on the license.

The FCC does send a Construction Notice Reminder. However, if your mailing address on the license is not correct, you may not receive this notice.   (The FCC does not guarantee you'll be notified.  Atlas' License Guard customers DO have OUR notice guaranteed.)  It is very important to keep your mailing address up to date with the FCC and with Atlas License Company!

If a Notice of Construction is NOT filed, your license/frequencies will be placed in a 30-day window of “Termination Pending”. During which a license/frequency may be reinstated by paying a substantial waiver fee, except for public safety, filing a late notice of construction along with a letter requesting a waiver of the rules. Without License Guard, this fee would be the licensee's responsibility.  License Guard customers are very unlikely to encounter this situation and if they do, Atlas pays the waiver fee.

If the license reaches the end of the 30-day "Termination Pending" window, and no response is made to the FCC, ALL UNCONSTRUCTED FREQUENCIES WILL BE TERMINATED. Legally, you must stop using all affected frequencies on the license until the frequencies can be reinstated by the granting of a new license application.  Quite often, the lost frequencies are not available and therefore, can be lost altogether.  Finding yourself in this position is highly undesirable since there's going to be expense in obtaining replacement frequencies and probably expenses in reprogramming equipment as well.

If you're viewing this page, you're most likely an Atlas License Guard customer.  Your subscription to License Guard has kept you from experiencing this unpleasant situation.  As far as the FCC is concerned, the responsibilities connected with being a licensee are 100% yours.  Again, the FCC does not guarantee you'll receive any type of notice and they will not be sympathetic to your problems if the filing dates are missed.

The notice you received from Atlas, giving you this web page address, IS our guaranteed notice.  Please respond online, or via fax or mail, so we may be sure your required notification is filed satisfactorily with the FCC.

Need even more information?

Don't forget our link to the FCC document about Construction / Coverage Filing: http://wireless.fcc.gov/licensing/const-req/uls_auto_termination.pdf
Or, call Atlas: 1-800-252-0529
Or, call the FCC: 1-888-CALL-FCC

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