keep in mind the p25 licensing thread doesnt provide an ounce of proof on how much the actual license fee is
Likely because the scanner manufacturers haven't released (of course) that information.
However, we
can get information about DVSI's license fees for other, publicly-traded companies. Those publicly-traded licensees would have to disclose such facts in their SEC filings. For example, as of 14 Aug 1995:
1. For DVSI's IMBE vocoder, E.F. Johnson was to pay DVSI a graduated amount per unit sold ("embodiment") per calendar quarter:
a. $5 per unit for the first 100,000 units
b. $4 per unit for units 100,001 through 1,000,000
c. $3 per unit for all units in excess of 1,000,000
2. E.F. Johnson was to pay DVSI a minimum of $135,000 in the first 3 years, regardless of units sold
(Subsequent SEC filings have addendums to this agreement that have E.F. Johnson making other, non-unit-based payments.)
If DVSI's agreements with other companies (including scanner manufacturers) were similar, we might be able to make some conclusions about the "license fee per scanner". For example, if Uniden had a similar arrangement with DVSI for the BCD396T and the total market for that product was 20,000 units (and all 20,000 were sold in the first 3 years), then we might be able to conclude that the "per unit DVSI license fee for a BCD396T is $6.75" (minimum $135,000 in three years across 20,000 units). However, since we don't actually know about Uniden's arrangement with DVSI, we can't make such presumptions.