Why can Cellular Market Area (CMA) searches be done on ULS, such as MTAs and BTAs?
Cellular Market Area (CMA) searches cannot be done by CMA number through ULS because cellular is considered a site-based service. ULS was not programmed to search for cellular licenses by market area (such as auctioned licenses) for this reason. The best way to search for cellular licensees in a particular area is to find out which states and counties comprise the CMA that you are interested in and do a state/county search. This can be done on ULS License Search: Select “General” as the search type; select radio service “CL”; click “GeoSearch”; select State/County search type; enter criteria; and pull up results.
