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How can SBC get away with charging FUSF for their DSL?
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This is beginning to piss me off, down to all this crap.
Hrmm, pay $5 on top of your DSL/phone bill buddies, if you've got SBC DSL, which they won't give you if you don't have a phone line, well you've got to pay the FUSF!! Because you know, you're ripping off the phone company because you might use something like vonage on your line..
Hey wait, I'm already paying $20 a month for a line I don't even USE! What's with that? And the $3 number portability, $2 911 tax, etc etc etc.. okay so DSL + a dud phone line = damn near $60 a month.
Can't complain -- the California PUC won't take complaints about ISPs, where does crap like this go?
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FUSF = Federal User Service Fee (or something like it)
PUC = Public Utilities Commission
I pay $54.95 for $hitty DSL from CenturyTel and as an added bonus, they tack on a $1.75 fee for FUSF or something similar. So, coupled with my phone bill (no long distance because we use a 3 cents a minute calling card), I get to pay $90 per month.
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Originally posted by Gankdawg:
FUSF = Federal Useer Service Fee (or something like it)
FUSF = Federal Universal Service Fee.
It's the "fcuk fee" that the telecommunications industry charges you to subsidize low-cost, basic telephone service to people/families with low incomes that otherwise couldn't afford the normal service charge.
Personally, I think they should eat that cost, but...
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Weird. I pay about $48 for my DSL Pro line. That includes the phone lines + all the fees. It's still $12 cheaper than my Cable line and a lot faster.
Originally posted by Link:
This is beginning to piss me off, down to all this crap.
Hrmm, pay $5 on top of your DSL/phone bill buddies, if you've got SBC DSL, which they won't give you if you don't have a phone line, well you've got to pay the FUSF!! Because you know, you're ripping off the phone company because you might use something like vonage on your line..
Hey wait, I'm already paying $20 a month for a line I don't even USE! What's with that? And the $3 number portability, $2 911 tax, etc etc etc.. okay so DSL + a dud phone line = damn near $60 a month.
Can't complain -- the California PUC won't take complaints about ISPs, where does crap like this go?
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Originally posted by Person Man:
FUSF = Federal Universal Service Fee.
It's the "fcuk fee" that the telecommunications industry charges you to subsidize low-cost, basic telephone service to people/families with low incomes that otherwise couldn't afford the normal service charge.
The FUSF is primarily used to subsidize the high cost of extending telephone service to rural areas, and to give schools, libraries, etc telecom services.
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