Try buying a transport circuit directly from at&t, they charge 60% in fees!

On Wed, Apr 1, 2026, 1:08 PM Josh Luthman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Fees are by definition something to add to the bottom line.  They are not
> taxes.  Fees and taxes are two different things.
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 3:06 PM Jason McKemie <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I just had my upstream start charging "regulatory fees" for some new
>> circuits.  The transport is via AT&T.  I've had multiple wholesale and ptp
>> circuits over the years and have never paid this sort of fee.  They claim
>> they previously absorbed this as a cost of doing business, but the new
>> owners are re-structuring how this is handled.  The fees amount to almost
>> 14% of the total transport.
>>
>> Is this an actual thing, or is it just a fake tax they're adding to pad
>> their bottom line?
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