Obama Proposes Spectrum License Fee

narramissic writes: "In the budget blueprint for 2009 that President Obama released Thursday is buried a new and undefined spectrum license user fee that would increase from $50 million in 2009 to $550 million four years later. The new fee, which takes up one line on page 126 of the budget blueprint, may not be, as some have speculated, a fee on wireless voice and data spectrum, but on spectrum used by U.S. radio and television stations. 'A similar fee, proposed but not enacted in past federal budgets, has not been for wireless spectrum that companies have purchased in auctions from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, but on TV and radio spectrum that's been allocated to broadcasters, said a government source familiar with past FCC budgets.'"
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