Updated 3/31/2005
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Code of
Conduct
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PopularWireless Magazine and all GMRS
licensees and users of the unlicensed personal radio services understand the
value and service the radio industry provides us through design, manufacturing,
retail, and product service. We encourage the radio industry to design,
manufacture, and sell products and provide services that we can use.
We want the radio industry to develop
exciting new products that make our family and personal communication more
efficient and useful.
We do not want the radio industry to
take unfair advantage of the limited frequency spectrum available to us by
creating incompatible mass-market products purely for the economic benefit of
their businesses. Nor do we want the radio-industry to advertise for sale GMRS
radios for use by entities ineligible to license in that radio service!
We believe common sense dictates that
great care be taken before manufacturers build and the FCC approves,
potentially interference-generating wireless devices that use the limited
number of frequencies available in the General Mobile Radio Service and Family
Radio Service. We call it the concept of incompatible use.
Retailers, manufacturers, and service
providers subscribe to this Radio Industry Code of Conduct in order to show
they do not engage in business practices that contribute deleteriously to the
personal radio services. The PopularWireless Certified Radio Industry emblem
(above) is displayed on industry websites to demonstrate acceptance and
appreciation of the code. The magazine will authorize diisplay of the emblem
after the industry representative demonstrates compliance. Unapproved websites
displaying the emblem commi a serious copyright violation and legal action will
be taken against them. Your comments on the development of this code are
appreciated. Send them to editor@popularwireless.com
The Code
- Subscribers to the code avoid
misleading, false, inaccurate, or exaggerated claims in advertising, marketing,
and selling practices. They maintain the integrity of every commercial message
from the marketing sell sheet to the helpful advice and counsel of the retail
sales person. The subscriber is forthright, honest, accurate, and informative
with every customer seeking product advice or support.
- Subscriber advertising for Family
Radio Service radios includes a statement that the radios may not be used in
foreign countries except Canada, and more specifically that the radios, may
only be used where the FCC has jurisdiction over radio regulatory matters.
- Subscribers recognize GMRS is a radio
service of personal licensees. Subscribers never rent, sell, or lease GMRS
equipment to persons or businesses not intending to properly license in the
radio service. Never leases GMRS repeaters or radio systems to businesses not
eligible to license in GMRS. Never recommends to businesses that the eight main
repeater pairs in GMRS are eligible for use by businesses and their employees.
Never builds, installs, or recommends that businesses use GMRS repeater inputs
or Interstitial channels for business simplex systems.
- Subscribers know the FCC Rules and
Regulations for GMRS as the rules apply to type acceptance, manufacturing,
sales, marketing, and the day to day use of GMRS by licensees.
- Subscribers charge a fair market
price. A fair market price enables a business to make a fair profit in order to
remain in business providing services and products to GMRS licensees well into
the future.
- Whenever possible, subscribers provide
instructions to, assists or refers new radio buyers to obtain FCC authorization
in GMRS or other appropriate radio service.
- Subscriber makes every reasonable
effort to resolve customer complaints about products or services.
- Does not advocate or sell radio
equipment for the express purpose of encouraging illegal operation (high power,
unauthorized frequencies) or modification of that equipment. e.g. out of band
CB.
- Subscribers understand that GMRS and
FRS are LIMITED two-way radio resources and as such avoids the use of GMRS and
FRS frequencies for children's toy products, wireless telephone interfaces, or
text messaging devices. Such use is not compatible with the services as they
exist today. Other Part 15 frequencies are available for such devices.
- Subscribers explain in product
documentation that operation on GMRS channels is PROHIBITED North of Line A
near the Canadian border and anywhere outside the USA where the FCC does not
have jurisdiction over radio regulatory matters.
- Subscriber engages is productive
discussions with GMRS licensees and its representatives when considering new
product designs or changes to the Federal Communications Commission Rules and
Regulations that effect the personal radio services.
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manufacturers and retailers to print this Code and insert it in their product
packing. Please give PopularWireless Magazine copyright credit and include the
URL of the magazine on the form you create. Please send us a copy for our
files. Thank you!