Editing Basic exchange telephone radio service

{{Short description|Fixed radio service}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2017}}

The '''basic exchange telephone radio service''' or '''BETRS''' is a fixed radio service where a [[multiplexing|multiplexed]], [[digital radio]] link is used as the last segment of the [[local loop]] to provide [[wireless]] telephone service to subscribers in remote areas. BETRS technology was developed in the mid-1980s and allows up to four subscribers to use a single radio [[channel (communications)|channel]] pair, [[wikt:simultaneously|simultaneously]], without [[Interference (communication)|interfering]] with one another.

In the US, this service may operate in the paired 152/158 and 454/459 [[Megahertz|MHz]] bands and on 10 [[channel block]]s in the 816-820/861-865&nbsp;MHz bands. BETRS may be licensed only to state-certified carriers in the area where the service is provided and is considered a part of the [[public switched telephone network]] (PSTN) by state regulators.

Regulation of this service currently resides in parts 1 and 22 of the [[Code of Federal Regulations]] (CFR), Subtitle 47 on [[Telecommunications]], and may be researched or ordered through the [[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]] (GPO).

==Sources==
*[[Federal Communications Commission]] (Wireless Bureau){{OR|date=April 2015}}

==External links==
*[http://www.fcc.gov Federal Communications Commission website]
*[http://www.gpo.gov Government Printing Office website]

[[Category:Local loop]]
[[Category:Mobile telecommunications standards]]