Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In telecommunication, the term frequency assignment has the following meanings: 1. Authorization, given by an Administration, for a radio station to use a radio frequency or radio frequency channel under specified conditions 2. The process of authorizing a specific frequency, group of frequencies, or frequency band to be used at a certain location under specified conditions, such as bandwidth, power, azimuth, duty cycle, or modulation. Synonym radio frequency channel assignment. See administration (def. #1). Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 See also: FCC, open spectrum This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.