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wrote:
Dale Farmer wrote:

FRS is the non-commercial one. GMRS is commercially licensable,
unless the FCC changed the rules again on me. GMRS and FRS do have some
frequencies in common, so they can talk to each other.
Of course, if the OP is not in the USA, then this doesn't apply.

Nope. Businesses CANNOT get a GMRS license. Only individuals can get
a GMRS license.
The FCC changed the regulations decades ago.

See regulation part (b):

Sec. 95.5 Licensee eligibility.

(a) An individual (one man or one woman) is eligible to obtain,
renew, and have modified a GMRS system license if that individual is 18
years of age or older and is not a representative of a foreign
government.
(b) A non-individual (an entity other than an individual) is
ineligible to obtain a new GMRS system license or make a major
modification to an existing GMRS system license (see Sec. 1.929 of this
chapter).

Okay. I've only been renewing licenses for quite some time now, so they
changed the rules on me. Damn bureaucrats. Of course, given the lax
enforcement that the FCC seems to exercise on businesses using FRS/GMRS
radios, they probably could use them anyway. Half the retail stores I
walk into lately have their employees using FRS radios around the store.

--Dale