Land mobile licences

Who does this licence apply to?

• Persons or other legal entities that own and operate land based radio transmitting equipment for communication between mobiles and/or portable sets either direct or through a radio repeater station.

What are land mobile services?

Licensing of radio transmitting equipment in the land mobile service covers a wide range of equipment, frequency use and power. In comparison to the Citizen Radio Service, Land Mobile services use higher power and are used in a two frequency mode where wide coverage is obtained by transmitting through a hilltop repeater. Where it is desirable for a large group of mobiles to constantly monitor communications as opposed to cellular communications which is "person to person" the land mobile service is a logical choice.

Land mobile licences are often associated with networks or trunking systems where a method of coded access is utilised for group communication, protection from interference and allows greater reuse of the frequency throughout New Zealand.

For mobiles operating outside the coverage of a repeater or in isolated areas, simplex service (single frequency) may be chosen by switching channels.

Phase-out of 25 kHz analogue land mobile channel in UHF or VHF bands

Existing use of 25 kHz analogue land mobile channels is to cease by 01 November 2015.

For information about migrating to 12.5 kHz channelling, please read our FAQs.

Applying for a land mobile licence

You can apply for a repeater or simplex licence by contacting an independent engineer.

For applicable annual licence fees refer to the fees schedule.