Boost for RFID as Ofcom looks to end licence fees

29 August 2012
RFID licence fees may be scrapped after the UK communications regulator Ofcom launched a consultation on making the technology available free of charge to supply chain users.

Currently anyone developing or testing the technology has to pay an annual fee of £50 for every site that uses it.

The European Conference of Telecommunications and Postal Administrations recommended last year that RFID be made free of charge to encourage further adoption.

Ofcom is now seeking to allow RFID users to utilise the standard 865-868MHz radio...

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