PUBLIC NOTICE
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DA 15-72
Released:  January 21, 2015
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Reminds Licensees and Registrants of the Effective Date of 
Final Procedures for Implementing Enhancements to the Commission’s Universal Licensing 
System and Antenna Structure Registration System for Providing Access to 
Official Electronic Authorizations
WT Docket No. 14-161
Effective Date:  February 17, 2015
On December 18, 2014, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) released a Final Procedures
Public Notice announcing the implementation of further enhancements to the Commission’s Universal 
Licensing System (ULS) and Antenna Structure Registration (ASR) System and adopting final 
procedures for providing access to official electronic authorizations through those systems.
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  Under the 
procedures, all commercial, private and public safety wireless service licensees and ASR registrants will 
access their current official authorizations in “Active” status only through License Manager in ULS or 
ASR Dashboard in the ASR System or by email, unless a licensee or registrant notifies the Commission 
by changing the default setting in either system, or by webpage or phone via the Licensing Support 
Center, or by letter to the Bureau’s Technologies, Systems and Innovation Division, that it wishes to 
receive its official authorizations on paper through the U.S. Postal Service.  
As explained in the Final Procedures Public Notice, the procedures adopted in that notice become 
effective 30 days after publication of the notice in the Federal Register.
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By this Public Notice, the Bureau notes that the Final Procedures Public Notice was published in the 
Federal Register on January 16, 2015.
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  Accordingly, the Bureau reminds licensees and registrants that the 
effective date of the final procedures, as published in the Federal Register, is February 17, 2015.
For further information contact Cyndi Thomas, Mobility Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, 
at (202) 418-2018 or via email at Cyndi.Thomas@fcc.gov. 
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Implements Enhancements to the Commission’s Universal Licensing 
System and Antenna Structure Registration System and Adopts Final Procedures for Providing Access to Official 
Electronic Authorizations, WT Docket No. 14-161, Public Notice, DA 14-1846 (WTB rel. Dec. 18, 2014).
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Id. at 2.
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Enhancements to the Commission’s Universal Licensing System and Antenna Structure Registration System for 
Providing Access to Official Electronic Authorizations, 80 Fed.Reg. 2416 (Jan. 16, 2015).