nodis
join:2001-12-20
San Jose, CA
| Re: True government actually, your isp probably is taxing you. in my case, i have dsl from earthlink and they collect $1 or so every month for the universal service fund (USF). this just started.
on the same copper pair that my earthlink dsl runs on, i have phone service from sbc, which, in turn, collects the usual slew of taxes on PSTN plus another USF levy. whee.
if vonage or other voip carriers start to collect taxes for using voip phone service on the dsl link, i will, effectively, be paying taxes/usf levies THREE times for service over a single copper pair.
i really hope the fcc steps in and rationalizes this mess. states and localities have to raise money somehow, as does the usf, but i'd really like to pay the fees only once. someone needs to figure out what layer of service (POTS, DSL, or IP service like VoIP running on the DSL link) will be taxed. |
