Nope… IP transit doesn’t pay into USF generally speaking. USF is billed as a separate line item (at least on the bills I get where it is a factor).
The “regulatory recovery fee” is a bs name telcos use to make it sound like a tax they are passing on to the government. In reality, it’s a slush fund to help pay for their lobbying efforts to get congress and various PUCs to help them screw over their customers even more. Owen > On Dec 2, 2018, at 14:41 , Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > Maybe this? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund> > https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service-fund > <https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service-fund> > https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service > <https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service> > > > Kinda crappy they don't spell it out. Well, no, I guess USF would be closer > to +-18%. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > From: "Brandon Wade via NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> > To: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2018 4:06:30 PM > Subject: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge > > 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
