Renewing Licences

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 35, 15 March 1929, Page 8

Renewing Licences

How Austria Meets the Problem {VERY radio subscriber in Austria has to give notice to terminate his subscriptions at the end of the year if he does not wish to continue it, and must fill up a form at the nearest postoffice, between December 1 and 25. After that date he is liable for the whole of next year, and there is no appeal. If he dies his executors must pay the full subscription for him, collected monthly, and give notice during the first twenty-five days of the following December, the only time at which such notices can be handed in. In the mountainous districts, where many new subscribers have lately come in, as the provincial stations have been set going, many protests have been made against this system, for the nearest post offices are often a long way off and snow-drifts may block the way in December; and farmers do not understand why they cannot give notice aut other seasons.