§  101.1409   Treatment of incumbent licensees.

   Terrestrial private operational fixed point-to-point licensees in the
   12.2–12.7 GHz band which were licensed prior to MVDDS or NGSO FSS
   satellite stations are incumbent point-to-point stations and are not
   entitled to protection from harmful interference caused by later MVDDS
   or NGSO FSS entrants in the 12.2–12.7 GHz band, except for public
   safety stations which must be protected. MVDDS and NGSO FSS operators
   have the responsibility of resolving any harmful interference problems
   that their operations may cause to these public safety incumbent
   point-to-point operations in the 12.2–12.7 GHz band. Incumbent public
   safety terrestrial point-to-point licensees may only make minor changes
   to their stations without losing this protection. This does not relieve
   current point-to-point licensees of their obligation to protect BSS
   operations in the subject frequency band. All point-to-point
   applications, including low-power operations, for new licenses, major
   amendments to pending applications, or major modifications to existing
   licenses for the 12.2–12.7 GHz band are no longer accepted except for
   renewals and changes in ownership. See § 1.929 of this chapter for
   definitions of major and minor changes.