What Gets Added to the BIll?

I don’t often see the fees because I don’t get the final bill.
On top of that each carrier charges different fees/taxes.
It isn’t easy to know what those fees will be. That’s on me though.

BGP – at least half the carriers charge something for this; either one time set up or a recurring charge.

IP Addresses – all of them charge for anything more than a /29

Off one bill for MPLS:

• Total Taxes, Governmental Surcharges & Fees
• Other Surcharges & Fees
• Cost Recovery Fee
• Federal Universal Service Fund (USF) Surcharge
• State Franchise Recovery Surcharge
• TX Municipal Franchise Fee
• Total Other Surcharges & Fees

Off one bill for Dedicated Internet Access:

• Taxes, Governmental Surcharges & Fees
• Communications Services Tax
• FL Communications Services Tax- Gross Receipts
• State Sales Tax
• County Sales Tax
• District Tax
• Local Sales Tax
• Utility Users Tax
• Total Taxes, Governmental Surcharges & Fees
• Other Surcharges & Fees
• State Franchise Recovery Surcharge

XO only charged an Admin Service Charge – no other fees/taxes - on Internet bandwidth.  This probably changes when Verizon starts billing XO customers.

On AT&T bills, I have seen:

• Surcharges and Other Fees
• Universal Connectivity Charge - Interstate
• Administrative Expense Fee – Interstate
• Property Tax Allotment - Interstate
• Federal Regulatory Fee - Interstate
• STATE COST - RECOVERY FEE
• Plus County, State and Federal taxes

On ACC Business, the bills for Internet Access, the only fee is Federal Access Recovery Fee. And ACC is a subsidiary of AT&T!!!

On GTT bills: Regulatory Recovery Surcharge of almost 10%.