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[cmailliard]

Not sure on how these work with the frequencies reserved for business use or how to apply. Never looked into it, but I am now.

You can consider MURS - FCC LINK and WIKIPEDIA LINK. These are limited to 2 Watts of power but you can increase range with an external antenna. Motorola makes a MURS Business Class Radio, the RDU2080. MURS are VHF frequencies in the 151 and 154 MHz area.

Given this is the S&P forum I am assuming this is the purpose you are looking to use these for? You can also consider the Baofeng UV-5R+ for this type of purpose. They are not Part 95 Certified by the FCC and you are not supposed to use them on FRS/GMRS/MURS frequencies, but pretty much everyone does. These are dual band VHF/UHF radios that are dirt cheap and work pretty well. Very easy to program. You still will not get the range you want, but that type of range in the city is pretty tough with low power radios with no access to a repeater.