Spectrum licence fees are too high already: big telecoms
telecom | 04/30/2019 3:38 pm EDT
An Innovation Canada consultation asking for comment about whether it should begin adjusting spectrum licence fees to keep up with the consumer price index has drawn opposition from BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp.
Bell told ISED in its written comments that the industry pays $185 million annually in spectrum licence fees, “an amount far in excess of the cost of administering spectrum licences.” In comparison, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States only collects half of that, it said.
The company argued that increasing spectrum licence
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