The FCC’s new regulatory fee schedule was published...
The FCC’s new regulatory fee schedule was published in the Federal Register Thursday and part of it took effect then, said an agency notice in the publication (http://1.usa.gov/1lXG8vC). The usual 30-day period after publication would “not allow sufficient time for…
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the Commission to collect the FY 2014 fees before FY 2014 ends on September 30, 2014,” said the FCC. The new schedule (CD Sept 3 p11) shifts the percentage of the costs of the International Bureau that must be supported by satellite operators, ended the AM expanded band exemption, increases the annual de minimis threshold from under $10 to $500, eliminates several regulatory fee categories and adopts a regulatory fee for toll-free numbers managed by a responsible organization, said the commission. All the provisions except the de minimis increase, the eliminated regulatory fee categories and the toll-free category took effect Thursday, said the commission. It said those three provisions will be effective in FY 2015.