Electron recycling fee.
On 2/10/2016 12:00 AM, Mathew Howard wrote:
Maybe we should all just start charging a "protection" fee... :P
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Jeremy <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Rise (the artist formerly known as Digis) has a $2.27 'Carrier
Recovery Fee' on top of all of the USF, e911, and such. Maybe
this is the same mystery fee? They also have $1.50 ATA rental and
$7.50 radio rental....but who needs to put all of that crap in
their marketing?? Maybe we are all supposed to be charging this
magical fee. Maybe someday the 'carrier recovery' goons are going
to stop by with baseball bats looking for their cut. You never
know....
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I don’t know if you are literally referring to the modem
rental fee, or the latest FCC thing which is the Set Top Box
rental fee.
I have a sliver of sympathy for the cable companies on the
STB, when people quote how much the cost has gone up over some
time period like the last 10 years.
I think they’re forgetting how little a STB did 10 years ago
compared to today. Most notably incorporating a DVR and a
whole bunch of tuners so you can record 4, 6, 10 shows plus
watch TV. We used to spend something like $200 for an
external TiVO with much less functionality.
*From:* Josh Luthman <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 09, 2016 12:43 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Centurylink Bogus Fees
Comcast gets slammed over the modem rental fee. Do a web
search (assuming you won't use Google =) for it, it's so
common even your bad search engines will come up with it. If
you look at any DSL/phone (land/cell)/cable bill the charges
are only 3/4 of the actual bill.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340>
Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel:937-552-2343>
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Travis Johnson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I was just helping my daughter setup Centurylink DSL
service at her new house. They advertise $29.95/month for
the service, but when you call and talk to the rep, there
is an additional "Internet Recovery Fee" of $1.99/month.
When I asked for specifics about that fee, all she could
say was "everyone gets charged that... it's how we keep
the network running and stuff". I think she even tried to
throw something about the FCC into the conversation once.
Amazing that they can add all these "fees" on top of the
advertised price and nobody has an issue with it. I don't
understand why they don't just advertise $1/month internet
and then add $29.99/month for their "Internet recovery
fee". LOL
Travis
