Ed -- I'd love to see more data on this. Where did your understanding come from?
I looked at my cellular bill last night, and on 4 lines, the "Fed Universal Service Charge" was a total of $1.88 on a total bill of about $180 (about $160 of it was just the monthly fee for 4 plans). Does anyone know how the wireless companies pay USF? E.g. they are paying 33.4% on what exactly? Beckman On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, Ed Guy wrote:
What service features of the service are subject to USF? is it only charged on retail land-line replacement or at multiple levels as a value-add? My understanding is that cellular services do not pay USF ( but, when we had a cell company several years ago, all taxes were outsourced..) On 6/10/21, 1:07 PM, "VoiceOps on behalf of Alex Balashov" <voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org on behalf of abalas...@evaristesys.com> wrote: That, and, while I am not at all an expert on what can and can't be recovered from customers, it was my impression that not 100% of USF can be passed on. On 6/10/21 1:03 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote: > Except that some of us specifically sell "bottom line" pricing that is > not variable and not padded with 20 lines of fees and taxes. Because > our ILEC is known for quoting $100 and billing $130-150 actual price. > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 9:38 AM Paul Timmins <p...@timmins.net> wrote: > > On 6/10/21 6:23 AM, Alex Balashov wrote: > > > > Yeah, observing it as an outsider who is not a service provider, > I'm a > > little shocked to say the least. It's hard to understand where that > > kind of money is supposed to come from with the margins in this > business. > > > Passthru fees to the end user, duh. There's nothing us telcos can't > cram > on the bottom of the bill. > > Customers are gonna be ticked, but what ya gonna do. It's a line item > now, and a line item later.
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