Telecommunications Act
(TCA)

¹ The li­cens­ing au­thor­ity shall charge a fee for ra­diocom­mu­nic­a­tions li­cences. No fee shall be charged for ra­diocom­mu­nic­a­tions li­cences in­ten­ded for broad­cast­ing li­censed ra­dio or tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vices in ac­cord­ance with the RTVA¹⁴¹.¹⁴²

² The amount of the fees shall be cal­cu­lated on the basis of:

a.

the fre­quency range al­loc­ated, the class of fre­quency and the value of the fre­quen­cies;

b.

the band­width al­loc­ated;

c.

the ter­rit­ori­al scope; and

d.

the tem­por­al scope.

³ If a fre­quency may also be used to broad­cast both li­censed ra­dio or tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vices and to trans­mit oth­er ra­dio and tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vices and in­form­a­tion, the lat­ter is sub­ject to a li­cence fee pro­por­tion­al to us­age.¹⁴³

^3bis In or­der to fa­cil­it­ate the in­tro­duc­tion of new broad­cast­ing tech­no­lo­gies in terms of Art­icle 58 RTVA, or to safe­guard the di­versity of pro­gram­ming in areas in­ad­equately covered by wire­less ter­restri­al ser­vices, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may re­duce the li­cence fee for broad­cast­ing ra­dio and tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vices.¹⁴⁴

⁴ If the ra­diocom­mu­nic­a­tions li­cence is gran­ted by auc­tion, the li­cence fee shall cor­res­pond to the amount of the bid, less ad­min­is­trat­ive charges for the in­vit­a­tion to tender and the grant­ing of the li­cence. The li­cens­ing au­thor­ity may fix a min­im­um bid.

⁵ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may waive pay­ment of the ra­diocom­mu­nic­a­tions li­cence fee in the case of the fol­low­ing bod­ies, provided that they do not sup­ply tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vices and that they make ra­tion­al use of fre­quen­cies:

a.

au­thor­it­ies and pub­lic law bod­ies and es­tab­lish­ments of the Con­fed­er­a­tion, can­tons and com­munes, provided that they use the fre­quency spec­trum ex­clus­ively for tasks for which they bear sole re­spons­ib­il­ity;

b.

pub­lic trans­port un­der­tak­ings;

c.¹⁴⁵

the in­sti­tu­tion­al be­ne­fi­ciar­ies of pref­er­en­tial rights, im­munit­ies and fa­cil­it­ies un­der Art­icle 2 para­graph 1 let­ters a, b and d–l of the Host State Act of 22 June 2007¹⁴⁶;

d.¹⁴⁷

leg­al en­tit­ies un­der private law, provided they per­form pub­lic tasks on be­half of the Con­fed­er­a­tion, can­tons or com­munes.