In the US, a Basic Trading Area is a geographic region defined originally in the
Rand McNally
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Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide and used by the
FCC where a
Personal Communications Service can operate. It consists of the counties surrounding a city designated as the basic trading center.
*Source:
*Note: The Major Trading Area (MTA) numbers in this table are based on alphabetical sorting, rather than population.
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Federal Communications Commission
Mobile technology
Telecommunications in the United States