ARLA/CLUSTER: Por 21,40 dolares pode ter um indicativo personalizado nos EUA (tradução livre para "vanity callsign")

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

New Amateur Radio vanity callsign fee set at $21.40

The FCC has adjusted very slightly downward - to $21.40 - its proposed
Amateur Service vanity call sign regulatory fee for Fiscal Year 2014.

In a June Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), the Commission said it was
planning to hike the current $16.10 vanity fee to $21.60 for the 10-year
license term.

The FCC released a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (R&O) in the proceeding on August 29, in which it recalculated
the fee to $21.40 for the 10-year license term. The $5.30 increase still
represents the largest vanity fee hike in many years.

The new $21.40 fee does not go into effect until 30 days after the R&O is
published in The Federal Register.

In the R&O, the FCC said it considered eliminating the regulatory fee for
Amateur Radio vanity call sign applications but decided not to do so "at
this time," because it lacks "adequate support to determine whether the
cost of recovery and burden on small entities outweighs the collected
revenue; or whether eliminating the fee would adversely affect the
licensing process." The Commission said it would reevaluate this issue in
the future to determine if it should eliminate other fee categories.

The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau sets the vanity call sign
regulatory fee using projections of new applications and renewals, taking
into consideration existing Commission licensee databases, such as the
Universal Licensing System (ULS) database.

The FCC reported there were 11,500 "payment units" in FY 2014. The
Commission said the vanity program generated an estimated $230,230 in FY
2013 revenue, and it estimated that it would collect nearly $246,100 in FY
2014.

The vanity call sign regulatory fee is payable when applying for a new
vanity call sign or when renewing a vanity call sign, although some older
vanity call signs are not subject to the regulatory fee.

Fonte: The American Radio Relay League <http://www.arrl.org/>
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