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FCC 74.690
Revised as of October 1, 2007
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2008
Sec. 74.690 Transition of the 1990–2025 MHz band from the Broadcast Auxiliary
Service to emerging technologies.
(a) New Entrants are collectively defined as those licensees proposing to
use emerging technologies to implement Mobile Satellite Services in the
2000–2020 MHz band (MSS licensees), those licensees authorized after July 1,
2004 to implement new Fixed and Mobile services in the 1990–1995 MHz band,
and those licensees authorized after September 9, 2004 in the 1995–2000 MHz
and 2020–2025 MHz bands. New entrants may negotiate with Broadcast Auxiliary
Service licensees operating on a primary basis and fixed service licensees
operating on a primary basis in the 1990–2025 MHz band (Existing Licensees)
for the purpose of agreeing to terms under which the Existing Licensees
would relocate their operations to the 2025–2110 MHz band, to other
authorized bands, or to other media; or, alternatively, would discontinue
use of the 1990–2025 MHz band. New licensees in the 1995–2000 MHz and
2020–2025 MHz bands are subject to the specific relocation procedures
adopted in WT Docket 04–356.
(b) An Existing Licensee in the 1990–2025 MHz band allocated for licensed
emerging technology services will maintain primary status in the band until
the Existing Licensee's operations are relocated by a New Entrant, are
discontinued under the terms of paragraph (a) of this section, or become
secondary under the terms of paragraph (e)(6) of this section or the
Existing Licensee indicates to a New Entrant that it declines to be
relocated.
(c) The Commission will amend the operating license of the Existing Licensee
to secondary status only if the following requirements are met:
(1) The service applicant, provider, licensee, or representative using an
emerging technology guarantees payment of all relocation costs, including
all engineering, equipment, site and FCC fees, as well as any reasonable
additional costs that the relocated Existing Licensee might incur as a
result of operation in another authorized band or migration to another
medium;
(2) The New Entrant completes all activities necessary for implementing the
replacement facilities, including engineering and cost analysis of the
relocation procedure and, if radio facilities are used, identifying and
obtaining, on the incumbents' behalf, new microwave or Local Television
Transmission Service frequencies and frequency coordination.
(3) The New Entrant builds the replacement system and tests it for
comparability with the existing system.
(d) The Existing Licensee is not required to relocate until the alternative
facilities are available to it for a reasonable time to make adjustments,
determine comparability, and ensure a seamless handoff. If, within one year
after the relocation to new facilities the Existing Licensee demonstrates
that the new facilities are not comparable to the former facilities, the New
Entrant must remedy the defects.
(e) Subject to the terms of this paragraph (e), the relocation of Existing
Licensees will be carried out by MSS licensees in the following manner:
(1) Existing Licensees and MSS licensees may negotiate individually or
collectively for relocation of Existing Licensees to one of the channel
plans specified in Sec. 74.602(a)(3) of this chapter. Parties may not decline to
negotiate, though Existing Licensees may decline to be relocated.
(i) MSS licensees must relocate all Existing Licensees in Nielsen Designated
Market Areas (DMAs) 1–30, as such DMAs existed on September 6, 2000, and all
fixed stations operating in the 1990–2025 MHz band on a primary basis, prior
to beginning operations, except those Existing Licensees that decline
relocation. Such relocation negotiations shall be conducted as “mandatory
negotiations,” as that term is used in Sec. 101.73 of this chapter. If these
parties are unable to reach a negotiated agreement, MSS Licensees may
involuntarily relocate such Existing Licensees and fixed stations after
December 8, 2004.
(ii) [Reserve]
(iii) On the date that the first MSS licensee begins operations in the
2000–2020 MHz band, a one-year mandatory negotiation period begins between
MSS licensees and Existing Licensees in Nielsen DMAs 31–210, as such DMAs
existed on September 6, 2000. After the end of the mandatory negotiation
period, MSS licensees may involuntary relocate any Existing Licensees with
which they have been unable to reach a negotiated agreement. As described
elsewhere in this paragraph (e), MSS Licensees are obligated to relocate
these Existing Licensees within the specified three- and five-year time
periods.
(2) Before negotiating with MSS licensees, Existing Licensees in Nielsen
Designated Market Areas where there is a BAS frequency coordinator must
coordinate and select a band plan for the market area. If an Existing
Licensee wishes to operate in the 2025–2110 MHz band using the channels
A03-A07 as specified in the Table in Sec. 74.602(a) of this part, then all
licensees within that Existing Licensee's market must agree to such
operation and all must operate on a secondary basis to any licensee
operating on the channel plan specified in Sec. 74.602(a)(3) of this part. All
negotiations must produce solutions that adhere to the market area's band
plan.
(3)–(4) [Reserved]
(5) As of the date the first MSS licensee begins operations in the 1990–2025
MHz band, MSS Licensees must relocate Existing Licensees in DMAs 31–100, as
they existed as of September 6, 2000, within three years, and in the
remaining DMAs, as they existed as of September 6, 2000, within five years.
(6) On December 9, 2013, all Existing Licensees will become secondary in the
1990–2025 MHz band. Upon written demand by any MSS licensee, Existing
Licensees must cease operations in the 1990–2025 MHz band within six months.
[ 65 FR 48180 , Aug. 7, 2000, as amended at 67 FR 53756 , Aug. 19, 2002; 68 FR 68252 , Dec. 8, 2003; 69 FR 62621 , Oct. 27, 2004; 69 FR 67836 , Nov. 22, 2004]
Subpart G—Low Power TV, TV Translator, and TV Booster Stations
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