The FCC will collect $341.9 million in regulatory fees from regul...
The FCC will collect $341.9 million in regulatory fees from regulated companies for fiscal 2009, the commission said in a report and order released Friday. The FCC said it will adjust the 2008 amount up 9.6 percent and allocate…
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this amount across the various fee categories. The commission declined to now make many of the changes requested by various filers when it sought comments on the fee structure (CD June 8 p1). In June, numerous filers asked for additional changes to the commission’s regulatory fee regime. USTelecom and the Independent Telephone & Telecommunications Alliance said changes should be in place for this year, rather than for future years. One area of concern, the order noted, was whether carriers should be assessed regulatory fees for their terrestrial non-common carrier circuits. “In the FY 2009 [notice of rulemaking] and Order, we sought comment on whether we should make such an assessment starting in FY 2010, at the earliest,” the order said. “Given the complexity of the legal, policy and equity issues involved, we decline to make a determination at this time. We may further consider this issue in the future.”