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Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge
From: Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 17:33:09 -0600
Once upon a time, Brandon Wade via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> said:
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.
It's a "because they can" fee - consumer cable and phone companies have been doing this for years to advertise lower prices and raise rates on customers in a fixed-price contract. So far, there hasn't been sufficient push-back to make it stop (and almost all of these contracts have binding arbitration clauses, so nobody can get it to a court for a precedent-setting decision). -- Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
Current thread:
- Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge, (continued)
- Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge Mike Hammett (Dec 02)
- Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge Matt Harris (Dec 02)
- Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge Clayton Zekelman (Dec 02)
- Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge James R Cutler (Dec 02)
- Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge bob evans (Dec 02)
- Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge Jason Hellenthal (Dec 03)
- Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge Matt Harris (Dec 02)
- Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge Mike Hammett (Dec 02)
- Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge Mike Hammett (Dec 03)
- RE: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge K MEKKAOUI (Dec 02)
- Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge Tom Beecher (Dec 03)
- Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge Martin List-Petersen (Dec 03)
- Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge Tom Beecher (Dec 03)
- Re: GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge Martin List-Petersen (Dec 03)