FCC announces effective date of new application fees

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This is from files uploaded to the FCC's website today:

DA 22-307
Released: March 23, 2022

EFFECTIVE DATE OF NEW APPLICATION FEE RATES FOR THE WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU
MD Docket No. 20-270

On December 23, 2020, the Commission adopted a Report and Order implementing a new application fee schedule which significantly updated the Commission’s previous fee schedule. As indicated in the 2020 Application Fee Report and Order, the new application fee rates will become effective when the Commission’s “information technology systems and internal procedures have been updated, and the Commission publishes notice(s) in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of such rules.” On July 6, 2021, the Commission announced the new application fee rates for the Office of Engineering and Technology and the Media Bureau would become effective on July 15, 2021, and on December 15, 2021, the Commission announced the new application fee rates for the Wireline Competition Bureau, the Enforcement Bureau, the International Bureau, and CALEA Petitions would become effective on December 15, 2021. This Public Notice announces that the new application fee rates for the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, codified at 47 CFR § 1.1102, will become effective on April 19, 2022. Wireless application fees can be paid through the Commission’s Universal Licensing System (ULS) at Universal Licensing System.

For further guidance regarding Wireless Telecommunications Bureau application fees, please refer to the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Fee Filing Guide located at
https://www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/application-processing-fees. For further information regarding this Public Notice, please contact Roland Helvajian, Program Analyst, Financial Operations, Office of the Managing Director, Roland.Helvajian@fcc.gov.
 

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Thanks. Has anyone found what the actual fees will be for GMRS and Part 90 mobile licenses? The information on FCC website is either scarce or verbose and "proposed".

I am in process of filing a part 90 itinerant and can wait a month if the savings are great, or strike now if it is going up.
 

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You have to go back to the Report and Order that was issued in December 2020.

GMRS goes to $35.

Site-based license applications, which seem to cover IB, range from $35 to $380 depending on what you are doing.
 

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You have to go back to the Report and Order that was issued in December 2020.

GMRS goes to $35.

Site-based license applications, which seem to cover IB, range from $35 to $380 depending on what you are doing.

That R&O document is verbose and contradictory

Site-Based License ApplicationsNew Fee
New license, major modification $95

So my Site Based, Itinerant license fee is $95 up from what $70? But then there is this:


Maritime, Aviation, Microwave, Land Mobile, and Rural
Radio
Please refer to the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau Fee
Filing Guide for Information on
the payment of an associated
regulatory fee.

?????

WTF,, Over...
 

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Sounds like you should direct your questions to the FCC.
The FCC changed the post-auction application fee from a cool $0 to $3,175—I and a handful of others protested but FCC basically responded with “sorry Congress is making us do this”

Maybe (and I’m not particularly hopeful) a Congressman in my area will find an issue with collecting ~$100k of application fees when these auctions generate revenues many multiples of that
 

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will become effective on April 19, 2022.

THANK YOU!!! So glad you posted the real info on this. I've had so many people tell me that it is $35 for the GMRS license and every time I went to apply, I was told to pay $70. Glad this has been cleared up. Thank you again for the post.
 

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I need to renew may Amateur in July, so I might as well test, upgrade, pay the fee and enjoy the next 10. At least my GMRS will be half the price in five more years.
 

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The FCC changed the post-auction application fee from a cool $0 to $3,175—I and a handful of others protested but FCC basically responded with “sorry Congress is making us do this”

Maybe (and I’m not particularly hopeful) a Congressman in my area will find an issue with collecting ~$100k of application fees when these auctions generate revenues many multiples of that
No better time to sail the Seven RF Seas arrrg! 🏴‍☠️
 

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I hope this doesn't complicate the process too much for amateur licensees... Seems absurd they even want to go forward with license fees for the service the FCC seems to provide...
 

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I hope this doesn't complicate the process too much for amateur licensees... Seems absurd they even want to go forward with license fees for the service the FCC seems to provide...
You need to complain to your Congressman… it is an election year after all

the RAY BAUM’S Act mandated the FCC revise the application fee schedule recover the break even cost of processing, it wasn’t their decision
 

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Hmm. I just renewed my GMRS license a couple of months back for $70. (Growl.) My HAM ticket has just under 6 years left on it.
 

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The ARRL got some clarification from the FCC about what actions trigger fees. This is from their post on Facebook today:

"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) staff has clarified in response to an ARRL request that the new $35 application fee will not apply to most license modifications, including those to upgrade an Amateur Radio Licensee’s operator class and changes to club station trustees. The FCC staff explained that the new fees will apply only to applications for a new license, renewal, rule waiver, or a new vanity call sign. As previously announced, the new fees take effect on April 19, 2022."

So, it sounds like you can make address changes, etc., and upgrade without incurring a fee.
 

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The ARRL got some clarification from the FCC about what actions trigger fees. This is from their post on Facebook today:

"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) staff has clarified in response to an ARRL request that the new $35 application fee will not apply to most license modifications, including those to upgrade an Amateur Radio Licensee’s operator class and changes to club station trustees. The FCC staff explained that the new fees will apply only to applications for a new license, renewal, rule waiver, or a new vanity call sign. As previously announced, the new fees take effect on April 19, 2022."

So, it sounds like you can make address changes, etc., and upgrade without incurring a fee.

It was already abundantly clear an address update would be free in the NPRM but the other information is nice to know
 
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