Re: FCC FUSF charges clarification

[Nuno Vieira via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

Thanks all who replied. Yes in fact it is "ayo"-ending one, and i do
have others in the very same location and this doesn't happen at all.

Matter handed over to legal team.

cheers

/Nuno

On Wed, 2020-10-14 at 16:58 -0700, Robert L Mathews wrote:
> On 10/14/20 2:14 PM, Nuno Vieira via NANOG wrote:
>
> > Company Z charges company A on top of agreed services:
>
> It may be just a coincidence, but I had the same problem with a
> company
> that begins with "Z" (and ends with "ayo").
>
> The quote I got was for a certain exact dollar amount with some tiny
> boilerplate-looking text that says they may pass on any taxes. Since
> I've used several providers in the same buildings who have never
> mentioned any taxes, I ignored it.
>
> When the actual bill came, it was 8% higher due to absurd things like
> "property tax surcharge". This is simply a fee they charge to cover
> their own property taxes. The other extras were similar.
>
> These are not taxes they are required to charge you separately.
> They're
> just adding money to the bill to get you to contribute towards
> *their*
> taxes. I complained long and hard about it, but they didn't care.