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Obama Proposes New Wireless Spectrum Fee

Under President Obama's budget submitted to lawmakers, wireless carriers such as Verizon, AT&T and Sprint would be hit with huge fees for the right to hold a spectrum license. The fee per carrier would be $50 million this year and eventually rise to $500 million per carrier, per year within a decade. Users fear carriers will add the new fee to phone bills.

The Obama administration Feb. 26 proposed to tax wireless carriers as much as $550 million per year for the right to hold a spectrum license. The fee would be in addition to the billions carriers have already paid in spectrum auctions held by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission).

Under the budget outline provided by the Obama administration, the new fees would be used to help reduce the $1.7 trillion national deficit. The proposal before Congress would charge carriers like AT&T, Verizon and Sprint $50 million this year. The fee per carrier would jump to $200 million in 2010 and eventually rise to $550 million by 2019.

According to the OMB (Office of Management and Budget), the fees would generate $4.8 billion over the next 10 years.

Alright one more negative proposal like this coming from Obama and I will lose all support of Obama.

[brooklyneast05]

we have to get rid of our national deficient somehow. we need to think of things to do to get money into it. people paying a few dollars more for the sake of that really doesn't seem THAT bad to me. cell phones are still a luxury in my opinion, although i know some people, like my gf, swear they cannot live without it. of course, this is coming from someone who doesn't have a cell phone in the first place so maybe that's why i don't see it as a huge deal. although i really don't think i'd have a problem with a few extra dollars, because i would gladly pay a bit extra for something else right now if it was going to decrease our deficient.


i didn't suspect there was any real math behind those figures when i first asked


one thing that does bother me about this though is that i don't exactly see how carriers can compete here. with fees that huge, it seems like it would be pretty hard for anyone but the major ones to be able to pay it. i don't like the idea of it being impossible to have any competition get into the ring. i might not be understanding how that works though or how much 50 million bucks is to these kinda things, so i don't know.