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FCC’s proposed regulatory fee schedule for FY 2002 calls for ‘dis...

FCC’s proposed regulatory fee schedule for FY 2002 calls for “disproportionate increase” for paging carriers, American Assn. of Paging Carriers (AAPC) said in comments filed with Commission April 23. AAPC said paging carriers would see 60% increase in fees…

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and urged FCC to reduce amount by “at least 20%.” New schedule would raise fees to 8 cents per pager, up from 5 cents last year, but AAPC said 4 cents would be more accurate if FCC had used more “consistent” data to derive figure. AAPC said Commission used formula that divided revenue requirement by number of paging units in service and didn’t use appropriate number of paging units. AAPC is new trade assn. for paging companies.