For one thing, redemption fees will work only if they are universally applied and enforced.
For one thing, there are the fees.
Craig Moffett, a cable analyst at Sanford Bernstein, said "it is one thing to wring big fees" out of small cable operators, but "if CBS goes dark on Comcast, CBS's distribution would plummet overnight.
Referring to the Liberal Democrats' pre-election promise to scrap tuition fees, he said: "The experience of student fee election pledge cards provides a salutary reminder of the perils of promising one thing on student finance and then doing another.
There were no tuition fees, for one thing, and Tillmans fell in love with London when it was at the center of a pan-European house-music movement.
Speaking fees are one thing.
One thing is clear, though: uni fees have always been a social and political battleground.
When countries around the world signed on to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, one thing they pledged to do was get those fees down to 3percentt or less.
Now, as Congress debates how to rein in credit and debit card companies in the United States, Australia's experience is being pointed to as an example of just how tricky that can be: for one thing, if regulators limit one fee or rate, banks are likely to find another way to keep revenue flowing.
But to Representative James L. Oberstar, Democrat of Minnesota, who has long followed industry issues, fees mean only one thing: "They've found a backdoor way to raise ticket prices".
