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NAB Wants FCC Reg Fees FNPRM for 'Big Tech'

Issue a Further NPRM on expanding the base of entities that pay FCC regulatory fees to include “Big Tech and other unlicensed spectrum users” so that those companies pay “their fair share of all of the Commission’s activities from which…

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they directly benefit,” said NAB in calls this week with aides to FCC acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, aides to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks and Office of Managing Director staff, per a filing posted Thursday in docket 21-190. Spare broadcasters reg fee increases related to the Broadband Data Act, “which neither regulates nor benefits broadcasters,” said NAB. “Allocate Broadband Costs across only those core bureaus that are doing the relevant work and whose regulatees benefit from the Commission’s broadband mapping.”