News - January 2004

The RA also had plans to remove the requirement for CB users to obtain a licence.
A few years back, the licences were removed from Post Offices as the cost of administration was too high. Since then, licensing has been dealt with by SSL, who are still part of the Post Office.
With the reducing licence figures, the RA considered that the costs could soon be higher than the revenue from the sales.
Although the new directive was set to come into force on July 25th 2003 and the RA document outlining the details seemed to suggest that new licences would not be issued after that date, nothing new has been heard and licence fees have continued to be charged - with reminders being sent out to existing licence holders.
Information about this change, along with the full document, can be obtained from Ofcom.