MUSCAT: His Excellency Nasser bin Khamis Al-Jashmi, Chairman of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, issued Resolution No. 42/2022 regarding the frequency spectrum monitoring services for space services.

The first article of the decision states — in the application of the provisions of this decision, the service requester means the local or international entity wishing to obtain the services of monitoring the frequency spectrum for space services, and by space services, the work provided by the Regulatory Authority Communications in the space fields, whether by monitoring the frequency spectrum or resolving radio interference, for satellites whose coverage includes the location of the station and the space orbits located within the arc of vision (133 East – 16 West).

While the second article stipulates that the fees for providing space services be determined – based on the request of the service – according to the following options:

Article 1: Providing the service for each working hour at the rate of OMR 281.

Article 2: Providing the service according to a contract concluded between the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority and the service applicant.

Article 3: The service applicant must pay 20% of the fee amount as a minimum upon contracting, and the rest of the amount is paid in instalments every three months from the date of the contract, provided that the total amount of the fee is paid to the authority before the expiry of the contract term.

Article 4: The service applicant may request deportation of a maximum of 50% of the number of contracted hours, for a period not exceeding six months from the date of the contract expiry, with a statement of the reasons for the deportation, provided that the authority approves this.

Article 5: The service applicant must deposit the amount of the fee in the authority’s bank account within 30 days from the date of the authority’s issuance of the payment notice.

Article 6: The authority may allocate 10% of the fee proceeds to the company that promotes space services, whenever a contract is made with the applicant based on the company’s promotion.

Article 7: Everything that contradicts this decision or contravenes its provisions shall be repealed.

Article 8: This decision shall be published in the Official Gazette, and shall come into force from the day following the date of its publication.

The decision was based on the Telecommunications Regulatory Law issued by Royal Decree No. 30/2002, the Executive Regulations of the Telecommunications Regulatory Law issued by Resolution No. 144/2008, the approval of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority Board of Directors, and the approval of the Ministry of Communications