Regulatory fee payments for all communications services must...
Regulatory fee payments for all communications services must be received by Sept. 20, said the FCC in fact sheets released Thursday. For commercial wireless services, Commercial Mobile Radio Service cellular radio and mobile services licensees owe 18 cents per phone…
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number or unit, and CMRS messaging services licensees owe 8 cents per unit, the FCC said (http://bit.ly/1aSDIHD). Broadband Radio Service licensees owe $510 per license, it said. Local multipoint distribution service license holders also owe $510 per call sign. In media services, fees must be paid by licensees of commercial AM and FM stations, holders of construction permits for new stations, “and licensees who hold auxiliary broadcast service licenses for stations operated in conjunction with the main station,” it said (http://bit.ly/17AwGA1). Fees vary among station classes and population served. For Class A AM stations with no more than 25,000 listeners, the fee is $775, it said. FMs in classes A, B1 and C3, serving a population of 25,001-75,000, owe $1,500. For holders of construction permits for new satellite stations for which a license hadn’t been granted as of Oct. 1, 2012, $960 is due for each permit regardless of market size, it said (http://bit.ly/17SGony). The FCC also set a $410 fee per license for low-power TV stations, translators and boosters, and for low-power FM translators and boosters. Cable TV Relay Service licensees must pay $510 per license and cable system subscriber fees are $1.02 per subscriber, the commission said (http://bit.ly/1amqDqR). Fees for services under the International Bureau include fees for licensees of very small aperture terminals, mobile satellite earth stations and operators of geostationary orbit and DBS satellites, it said (http://bit.ly/17SGony). Fees for geostationary orbit and DBS licensees are set at $139,100 per operational station, it said.