fegul
Premium
join:2004-08-23
united state | Damn
Its already costing me $53 a month. Crap. |
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insomx
Premium
join:2003-01-26
Canada | Ditto! |
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rickten
join:2002-03-09
Davis, CA | the rich get richer and the common man, well you get the point. |
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TheSaint
join:2002-01-25
Hanover Park, IL
clubs:
 ·Charter Pipeline
·Comcast
| reply to insomx
$50 here for Charter. I can't wait for the two page letter that will follow explaining the "increase" in terms a consumer can "understand", i.e. not tell them about the true pork barrel nature of the USF.
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jsimmons
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-24
Falls Church, VA
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I pay $49/month for a Local/LD phone service package from the phone co. What do I get billed? Try $74!! Thats $25 a month in taxes and fees!!
The governments (yes federal, state, and local) and phone company know they can get away with it... and the phone company lobbies want to level the playing field against broadband - not by reducing the fees and taxes, but by making the BB providers tack on the same fees and taxes.
Gees.. my phone bill is indecipherable enough as it is. Soon, the broadband bills will be the same.
Time to write your congress representatives about this madness (not that it'll do a lick of good). But its time for consumers to make their point and make it loudly.
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richardpor
Fur it up
join:2003-04-19
Portland, OR | reply to rickten
Only people are getting richer are the government bureaucrats. |
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
·Optimum Online
| said by richardpor  :Only people are getting richer are the government bureaucrats. That's what your local thieving telco would like you to think. Many of the "taxes" aren't. FCC Subscriber Line Charge? Not a tax. Most of the line items aren't. And no one seems to have any record of where the USF dollars go; from what I can gather the telco is the party that decides where that cash ends up. Of course we can trust that it's ALL going to rural POTS service, right?  |
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richardpor
Fur it up
join:2003-04-19
Portland, OR
| Oh so are you going to tell me that some how government passes a law to allow Telco’s to take a little more money from the customer and spend it any way the company wants?
Hey Gus I know politics. There are plenty way government beat around the bush in raising taxes. One-way is not to call it a tax but a fee. |
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Mordhem
Love it, Hate it.
join:2003-07-10
Baltimore, MD | reply to fegul
Ya about the same here, if this happens I will be dropping comcast for Verizon dsl its far cheaper as it is.
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