[cma-l] Changes to application process for short-term RSLs (from 1 September 2015) - updated

[Ian Hickling]

So adding another two weeks ensures that Applicants pay their fees on time?Surely proper management and enforcement would provide that?
And Ofcom will supply licensees with the details of their allocated frequency and power levels in their licence, which will only be issued by Ofcom once full payment of all licence fees has been made.Logical - because notifying frequency prior to receiving payment is hardly sensible.One more thing.Surely every RSL operator uses RDS these days?
Why is not the PI code allocated with the licence instead of requiring a phone call and an uncertain wait for a response.Two Clients recently never got their code and had to invent one.And why can't we have codes and allocated power available on line?

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From: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:16:04 +0100
To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Subject: [cma-l] Changes to application process for short-term RSLs (from 1 September 2015) - updated

Ofcom is changing the way it processes short-term Restricted Service 
Licence (‘SRSL’) applications. This is to ensure that all SRSL licensees
 have paid the necessary licence fees before they start broadcasting.

The changes apply to all SRSL applications received on or after Tuesday 1 September 2015.

So that Ofcom can collect the fees before broadcasts start, from 01 September the latest an applicant can apply for an SRSL licence will be eight weeks before its proposed airdate (the current minimum period is six weeks prior to broadcast). 

The earliest an applicant can apply for an SRSL licence will remain unchanged at six months before the proposed airdate. 
These changes will be added to Ofcom's Guidance Notes 
in due course, but you are particularly urged to read the web link below if 
you plan to apply for an RSL from September 2015 onwards.

The new changes that are detailed on the website, consists of:

1)     
A change to the minimum notice period (deadline) given to Ofcom for an RSL

2)     
A change to the Licence fee payment due date, 

3)     
A change to the way Ofcom will communicate the news of an allocated frequency to the Licensee.


Applications that Ofcom has recently received will follow the current process.

http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radio-broadcast-licensing/restricted-service-licences/apply/rsl-changes-sep15

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