By the way I speak from experience. The FCC for whatever reason does not want you to renew your amateur radio license for free like it’s always been. They’ve made it so convoluted to renew the license it’s a joke, people have spent days simply trying to renew their licenses. Someone in the FCC is literally forcing people to use outside pay services to renew.
I don’t care about paying a fee. I was surprised there wasn’t one when the license was first obtained. I just wanna renew the darn license without spending an entire day on the computer!
(But I don’t see how the FCC profits from people going to concierge services to renew.)