Commenters Ask FCC for Application Fee Tweaks; ARRL Opposes Fees

the current statute or its legislative history conveys any Congressional intent that applications for amateur radio licensees be subject to application fees,” ARRL said. CTIA sought tweaks to proposed rules. “Assess fees based on the complexity of the transaction,” the group said: “Application processing fees for wireless assignment, transfer of control, and de facto transfer lease applications should be based on whether the application is subject to the Commission’s ‘immediate approval’ or ‘general approval’ procedures, since this is a better gauge for determining the Commission’s processing costs than only the number of call signs included in the application.” Assess fees on a per-application basis when all call signs are subject to the same review and “exempt applications from fees when minimal (if any) staff review is required,” CTIA asked. Take into account that “wireless services include a significant variety of systems that will be treated as comparable for application fee purposes under the proposed streamlined approach,” commented the Enterprise Wireless Alliance: The current licensing regime is “both incomplete in that some services cannot be charged a filing fee and … overly complex.”