There are no licence fees, and the file formats and data structures are open.
He has launched a consultation that would also see a reduction in postal licence fees.
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However, this idea that higher licence fees will lead to higher call costs is economically suspect.
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It is harder still to make securities out of such things as music royalties and patent licence fees.
In his view, the aim should be to get the most telephone connections rather than the highest licence fees.
But Sky has shown no signs of wanting to join the project and believes licence fees could be better spent.
Politicians believe, probably correctly, that they will spend the windfall from licence fees and casino taxes more benevolently than gangsters would.
Delegates had just voted overwhelmingly, virtually unanimously, to support a campaign to withhold the payment of TV licence fees in protest at changes for S4C.
And software suppliers are preparing for a different revenue model: instead of chunks of licence fees at point-of-sale, monthly-usage fees will trickle in from their customers.
The SPAA say that producers' revenues from broadcast licence fees have remained stagnant for the last decade, while the cost of production has doubled and overseas finance is "drying up".
Traditionally, firms pay for new software initially with large licence fees, and then spend more money and time trying to install the new applications on their computers and training employees to use the new features.
Would licence fees change, would the rules on what could and could not be listened to alter, would CBS simply switch the service off and try to transition them to something almost, but not quite, the same?
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At the time, selling software to large companies was sometimes likened to drug dealing, because once a firm installed a piece of software, it had to pay a stream of licence fees for upgrades, security patches and technical support.
Alas this happy ploy is more or less confined to countries such as Sweden, where ministers resign for forgetting to pay television-licence fees, and members of parliament perch in tiny, state-owned bedsits while working in the capital: 72% of Danes and 66% of Swedes duly told a 2010 Eurobarometer poll they trusted national parliaments.
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New fees for the licence needed to run thrift clubs have been reduced by the Jersey Gambling Commission.
Any street trader on a public road or footway in Oxford now has to have a licence after councillors approved new fees at a meeting on Monday.
Lastly, new licence plates for military vehicles will be issued from 1 May to stop "wannabe army drivers" from using fake military licence plates to skip parking fees and road tolls and run red lights, says Global Times.
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