FCC Closing Lockbox for Making Wireless License Payments
The FCC is closing P.O. Box 979097, a lockbox for manual payment of filing fees for site-based license applications, personal license applications and geographic-based license applications, effective Aug. 14, said a notice for Thursday’s Federal Register. The FCC is discontinuing…
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the option to make manual fee payments, and instead requiring “the use of an electronic payment for each listing in this rule, and make conforming changes to other related provisions,” the notice said. Closing the lockbox will cut the agency’s costs, “including eliminating the annual fee for the bank’s services … and the cost of manually processing each transaction, with little or no inconvenience to the Commission’s regulatees, applicants, and the public,” the FCC said.