E-Band and V-Band - Survey on status of worldwide regulation
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Examples of E-Band Fees
Some cases, in anonymous form, are reported here to show how administrations determine the fee in
case of E-Band exploitation. In most cases, the methods are not so different to those applied in lower and
traditional frequency bands.
Case#1
The administration website proposed an online calculator. After frequency band selection we obtain the
fees due according to three parts:
Application Processing /one-time payment, for each link/radio route
Licence / annually, for every link/radio route
Use of RF Spectrum /annually, for each 1 MHz assigned
In this model, we have:
One-time fees
Annual fees composed of two parts, one fixed and a second one depending on channel
bandwidth.
Case#2
Also in this case, the fee is subdivided into parts:
Nationwide authorization non-recurring contribution for using the band and for maintaining the
national database of the links.
Registration fee per link, lasting 10 years before renewal. To this the user should add the cost of
the detailed link planning for building up the interference analysis documentation to be submitted
with the registration.
In this model, the total fees are totally independent of frequency, bandwidth, area.
Case#3
Also in this case we have two different parts:
Non-recurring cost per link, for covering the planning cost. This cost is for 250MHz channel. 500
MHz channel will pay x2.
Annual fee / link for the management of the database and surveillance independent of channel
bandwidth.
This is similar to Case #1, but there is the non-recurring cost that depends on bandwidth.
Case #4
The frequency fee is calculated with the following formula:
