Sec.  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  Sec. 1.929 of this chapter for
   definitions of major and minor changes.