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 <c...@cmadams.net>
