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Obama's proposed 2010 budget juices carriers for more cash - EngadgetThere's no easy answer to erasing a staggering trillion-plus dollar deficit in a federal budget, but you've got to start somewhere -- and Obama's looking at the nation's wireless carriers as cash cows just waiting to be milked. The President's proposed budget for 2010 calls for an increase in spectrum license user fees from $50 million to $200 million, with further increases to $550 million over the course of the next decade, all of which would be on top of the billions carriers have already shelled out in spectrum auctions. A good way to bring in some extra cash? Yeah, probably, but considering that carriers will be more than happy to pass the increases on to consumers, let's just be straight: it's a tax.
I dont find this to be very good news,first Americans are getting riped off with text messages and data,now a new tax might be coming to add to the cost of a already over priced cellphone plans.Ok I know America has way better cellphone plans than canada(3 year contracts) and other parts of the world but this still sucks...