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Originally Posted by schettj
So if the fee is 500 million total, and we evenly divide the .2 billion people across all 4 carriers, that would work out to about $10/year per person. Round up, call it $1/mo.
The sky is NOT falling.
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That's $50 million per carrier this year, $200 Million per carrier next year, and $500 million per carrier by 2011. So it would actually be $2,000,000,000.00 in fees to the big 4 carriers alone. Not to mention, Virgin, Cricket, Metro, etc. How many carriers are there? 20? 30? More? And each one will be required to fork out half a Billion dollars each year to keep their spectrum. Assuming 30 carriers, you are talking $15,000,000,000 in fees alone, on top of what is already paid. This will kill all of the smaller carriers, and probably Sprint and T-Mobile as well. Are you ready for a $75-$100 increase in your bill?