telecom.market-area

Map a US lat/lon to its FCC spectrum-licensing geographies — Cellular Market Area (CMA), Basic/Major Trading Area (BTA/MTA), Partial Economic Area (PEA), and BEA/EAG/MEA/REAG economic areas — plus 2020 Census block FIPS, county, and block population. These define spectrum-license boundaries; dist...

Server Mcp @2sio/mcp
Category Read
Risk class Low
Parameters 00 required

What telecom.market-area does on Mcp

AI agents call telecom.market-area to retrieve information from Mcp without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why telecom.market-area needs a policy

This is a data retrieval tool. It queries public FCC spectrum licensing geographies and Census demographic data and returns the results. No data is created, modified, deleted, or executed. The tool performs a pure read operation on static reference datasets.

From the tool's definition Tool maps coordinates to geographic reference data (FCC spectrum zones, Census blocks, county info); returns lookup results with no side effects. Description uses "map", "lookup", and references public-domain Census and FCC data.

Questions about telecom.market-area

What does the telecom.market-area tool do? +

Map a US lat/lon to its FCC spectrum-licensing geographies — Cellular Market Area (CMA), Basic/Major Trading Area (BTA/MTA), Partial Economic Area (PEA), and BEA/EAG/MEA/REAG economic areas — plus 2020 Census block FIPS, county, and block population. These define spectrum-license boundaries; distinct from ordinary geocoding. Keyless, public-domain. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.

How do I enforce a policy on telecom.market-area? +

Register the MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for telecom.market-area: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Mcp. Nothing to install.

What risk level is telecom.market-area? +

telecom.market-area is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.

Can I rate-limit telecom.market-area? +

Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the telecom.market-area rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.

How do I block telecom.market-area completely? +

Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for telecom.market-area. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.

What MCP server provides telecom.market-area? +

telecom.market-area is provided by the MCP server (@2sio/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.

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