La FEMP (Federación Española de Municipios y Provincias) quieren incrementar hasta un 1.5% of the gross income of mobile telephone operators in concept of Fee for occupation of local public domain.
The billing of the operators in the previous year (2005) I was around 18.000 million. If we take into account that 1.5% that the FEMP claims, this, translated into numbers, would come to be 270 million euros annually.
Not bad.
The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce and also the Ministry of Economy and Finance will do everything possible so that this rate is not applied.
This fee was intended to encourage city councils to approve the installation of more antennas, but he has not achieved his goals. The town councils, especially the little ones, They continue to pose great difficulties to the deployment of mobile networks so that not only is the installed base not increasing, but, in some cases, installed antennas are being removed.