On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 4:06 PM Brandon Wade via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
> We've been a GTT customer for several years and on our latest bill we now > have a "Regulatory Recovery Surcharge" of almost 10% tacked on. We only > purchase IP Transit services from them, nothing else, and have never had > any fees tacked on top of our contracted agreed upon amount. Has anyone > else ran into this? If this is a legit "surcharge" any idea of why we were > never charged for that before? I figured I'd reach out to the community on > this prior to jumping to further conclusions. > > -Brandon > Yupp, on my GTT IP transit bill as well. This is how telecomm companies pad out their margins these days. You don't even want to know the % of my bill that is just "fees" I'm paying Level3 on a wave circuit. At this point I won't sign for service without knowing exactly what I'll be paying in terms of fees and surcharges and such - there's some stuff you can't avoid on some types of circuits, but for the most part, it's all just padding out their margins. Take care, Matt
