ARLA/CLUSTER: E.U.A. : "Amateur Radio vanity call sign " desaparecem em Setembro de 2015

[Rui Oliveira]

Se me permite, claro colega João, o corpo da notícia indica que o que
desaparece é os custos de ter um indicativo ocasional e não a possibilidade
de eles existirem.
Nuns países não se paga... Aqui paga-se bem...

Rui Oliveira
CR7ALW
Em 31/07/2015 13:09, "João Costa &gt; CT1FBF" <ct1fbf  gmail.com> escreveu:

> Amateur Radio vanity call sign fee to disappear in September
>
> The Amateur Radio vanity call sign regulatory fee is set to disappear
> in the next few weeks. According to the best-available information
> from FCC sources, the first day that applicants will be able to file a
> vanity application without having to pay a fee is Thursday, September
> 3.
>
> In deciding earlier this year to drop the regulatory fee components
> for Amateur Radio vanity call signs and General Mobile Radio Service
> (GMRS) applications, the FCC said it was doing so to save money and
> personnel resources. The Commission asserted that it costs more of
> both to process the regulatory fees and issue refunds than the amount
> of the regulatory fee payment.
>
> "Our costs have increased over time, and now that the costs exceed the
> amount of the regulatory fee, the increased relative administrative
> cost supports eliminating this regulatory fee category," the FCC said
> in its Report and Order, which appeared on July 21 in The Federal
> Register. "Once [it's] eliminated, these licensees will no longer be
> financially burdened with such payments, and the Commission will no
> longer incur these administrative costs that exceed the fee payments."
>
> The FCC raised the Amateur Service vanity call sign regulatory fee
> from $16.10 to its current $21.40 for the 10-year license term in
> 2014. The $5.30 increase was the largest such fee hike in many years.
> In a typical fiscal year, the FCC collected on the order of $250,000
> in vanity call sign regulatory fees.
>
> The FCC said the revenue it would otherwise collect from such
> regulatory fees "will be proportionally assessed on other wireless fee
> categories." Congress has mandated that the FCC collect nearly $340
> million in regulatory fees from all services in fiscal year 2015.
>
> Fonte : The American Radio Relay League
>
>
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