Paging Licence Applications - The Electronic Way

Press Release - 31 October 2001

The Radiocommunications Agency is pleased to announce that from 1^st November 2001 new applications for private paging licences can be made electronically via the Internet, using the online RA5 and RA30 application form. This can be found at www.radio.gov.uk/topics/ebusiness/online-index.htm

Applications can, of course, still be made using the paper version of the form. But by choosing the online route customers will benefit from:

• Quick and direct delivery of the application direct to the Agency
• Intelligent forms that only display the relevant questions needed to complete the application
• On-screen help that will offer information and guidance on completing each question
• The facility to pay the licence fee by credit or debit card, up to the value of £1000

Paging applications are the first of the Agency’s range of Private Business Radio (PBR) licences to be available electronically, in accordance with the aims of the Modernising Government white paper.

Notes for editors

1. The Radiocommunications Agency is an executive agency of the Department of Trade and Industry, responsible for licensing civil use of the radio spectrum in the UK.
2. A paging system is a cost-effective method for transmitting one-way and short two-way messages. Each pager within a system has its own unique code, and when the pager caller sends a coded transmission it alerts the bearer by means of an audible tone, a light and/or a vibration or a short voice message.

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