Wireless communication licenses, slated to start being sold by the Federal Communications Commission on June 29th.—an auction Wall Street analysts say could generate as much as $15 billion—is being projected as raising some $25 billion for the Government between 2007 and 2009, according to a CNN Money article this morning. These are primarily for the major wireless carriers.
Along with maybe the good news, though, ZDNet has posted news that “hidden deep in President Bush’s nearly $2.8 trillion budget is a proposal to raise some $3.6 billion over the next decade by imposing ‘user fees’ on the ‘unlicensed wi-fi spectrum’….
“The most likely scenario for collecting such a tax would be for it to be imposed on equipment using the WiFi spectrum at the time of purchase…. Or they could just force free WiFi hot spots to impose fees and collect them from libraries and coffee shops.”
FCC budget proposal @ http://www.fcc.gov/Reports/fcc2007budget.html
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