Regulatory Recovery Surcharge for Canadian corporations

Tue Mar 14 14:59:31 UTC 2017

>From what I've gathered so far, every other carriers that we use are either
invoicing us from Canada or outside the US (e.g. Telia from Vancouver, BC and
Cogent from Toronto, ON).

A couple of minutes after firing my first email, our rep called me to follow
up. He'll escalate this as far as he can with his COO and CFO and suggested
two scenarios.  

On Mar 14 2017, at 10:41 am, Graham Johnston <johnstong at westmancom.com> wrote:  

> We don't explicitly pay a charge like this for the transit bandwidth we
purchase in Toronto from an international carrier, and I doubt that it is
built into the cost without any mention of it. I've never heard of such a
thing.

>

> Graham Johnston  
Network Planner  
Westman Communications Group  
204.717.2829  
johnstong at westmancom.com

>

> \-----Original Message-----  
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Eric Dugas  
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 9:04 AM  
To: NANOG  
Subject: Regulatory Recovery Surcharge for Canadian corporations

>

> I recently negotiated a new contract with a tier1 for IP transit in Canada
and  
just got the invoice. I saw a "new" Regulatory Recovery Surcharge of 10% the  
MRC (before taxes) that I've never seen before. Do any of my Canadian fellows  
on this list are paying this outrageous surcharge?

>

>

>

> Other than saying "it's in the MSA", our rep, their tax and billing
department  
are not useful at all. The actual rate is not specified anywhere in the MSA or  
in the contract.