Sentence examples for cost of licences from inspiring English sources

Nicholas Negroponte, a guru of the wired world at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has argued that the high cost of licences will slow the deployment of 3G networks in Europe.

Taxi prices are set to increase in West Berkshire in order to cover the rising cost of licences.

The cost of licences depends on a variety of factors, including the number of listeners and whether music is played in a work or a recreational area.

This week brought another disguised, redistributive tax: a rise in the cost of licence plates for higher-powered cars.

Gordon Brown hardly helped the BBC when he announced in 1999 that the government would foot the cost of licence fees for the over-75s, an easy target for George Osborne as chancellor, who indeed pushed that cost back to the BBC this summer, at the estimated cost to the corporation of £750m by 2020-21.

In an interview with Media Guardian, Thompson said he expects over the next few years to make efficiency savings that will amount to £330m by slashing overheads – including cutting the cost of licence fee collection and targeting those evading the £145.50 household levy.

It was into this idyll that I crashed – I and my mobile phone and my urgent hackish need to redraft a very long article on the state of the BBC, a redraft necessitated by George Osborne's decision in the 8 July budget to land the corporation with the cost of licence fees for the over-75s, previously footed by the government.

Warwickshire said there will be a range of benefits from opting for a cloud-based email solution, including greater flexibility of working and reduced costs of licences for email.

As well as covering the cost of free licences, the BBC will also take charge of policy on licences for over-75s, which was previously decided by the government.

Acquiring licences for all the national territories where potential customers reside is not financially attractive, because of the extremely high cost of such licences.

Rio de Janeiro threatened to recoup any money it lost to the have-nots by imposing steep rises in the cost of environmental licences on oil firms in its patch.