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Condition in

the Hutchvision

Licence

Payments to

(G)

HKG

Reasons for

inclusion in the Hutchvision Licence

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Proposed approach in the revamped regime

Justification for

the proposed approach

Licensee

should pay

licence fee

and service

origination

charge to HKG

(i)

(ii)

monetary recognition for

the permission

to uplink from HK (but this is questionable)

to charge only a

licence fee to

recover in full the

costs in regulating

and monitoring the

service

(i)

(ii)

for the sake of simplicity and clarity and to

charge no more

than that can be

logically

justified

International

broadcasters could

choose to uplink their programmes

from elsewhere if

charges are

unreasonable.

(iii)

to be fair to

ATV/TVB which

have to pay royalty (again

this is

questionable)

payment offered

by Hutchvision

of its own

accord

(iii)

Royalty payments

by ATV/TVB are

justifiable as the

local frequency

spectrum is a