[asterisk-biz] USF payments

[Alex Balashov]

This is a violation - IF the line item is labeled as USF.  USF can 
only be assessed on interstate traffic.

There is nothing to stop someone from charging you a more general kind 
of "regulatory recovery fee" or additional "administrative" fee and 
rolling up USF into that.  But they cannot claim it is USF recovery 
per se;  that's illegal.

On 03/02/2010 07:31 PM, SIP wrote:

> Our primary termination/origination carrier (Vitelity) has recently
> decided to start charging us a USF percentage on every payment we make
> to them. Keep in mind, 90% of the money we pay them is for
> administrative fees, not for origination or termination charges on any
> of the several hundred DIDs which get very little usage.
>
> Our other two carriers don't do this, but I'm wondering whether or not
> they're out of the ordinary, or if it's just Vitelity.
>
> It seems as though USF, which is a pay-for-use fee, should not be
> allowed to be assessed on administrative and non-traffic-related
> commerce. It strays away from being a USF charge at that point and
> becomes a general 'service charge' for non USF-related purposes.
>
> Have people run into this with other carriers?
>
> N.
>


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