As far as I can tell, it's a 5 watt, 16 channel UHF radio. "License free" isn't strictly speaking true, as the only true license-free bands are MURS and FRS, but MURS is out of its frequency range, it has too much power for FRS, and FRS radios aren't permitted to have a removable antenna. By the strictest definition, this is a Ham radio, although its restricted frequency range significantly limits its utility. I can see this being useful for a business or event staff, if they were willing to ignore the FCC regulations. It may be possible to set it for less than 5 watts. If you set it for 2 watts and programmed the 2-watt frequencies (1-7 and 15-22), nobody would know. I'm not saying you should do that, but if I owned a warehouse and needed a lot of radios, I might be willing to risk it at the price.