GTT Regulatory Recovery Surcharge

Mon Dec 3 14:11:36 UTC 2018

There are quite a few not crappy vendors out there, regardless of my snark.
NTT is definitely one of the better ones.

Unfortunately, telecommunications billing is only slightly less complex
than medical billing, and there are plenty of vendors that have made those
decisions to invest in more financial engineering than technical since, as
has been said, they can.

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 9:05 AM Martin List-Petersen <martin at airwire.ie>
wrote:

> On 03/12/2018 14:01, Tom Beecher wrote:
> > "Cancelled all GTT connections and replaced them
> > with a carrier, that doesn't try to screw their customer base."
> >
> > Who is this magical unicorn? :)
>
> Replaced that circuit with NTT. So far, very pleased with that.
>
> Kind regards,
> Martin List-Petersen
> Airwire Ltd.
>
>
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 8:51 AM Martin List-Petersen <martin at airwire.ie>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 02/12/2018 22:06, Brandon Wade via NANOG wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> -Brandon
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm not sure, if thats a stateside thing, but GTT started increasing the
> >> prices on customers that were out of contract to try and get them back
> >> into a long term contract.
> >>
> >> For us that was the last straw, where we simply told them to take their
> >> IP transit and keep it. Cancelled all GTT connections and replaced them
> >> with a carrier, that doesn't try to screw their customer base.
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Martin List-Petersen
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> >>
> >
>
>
> --
> Airwire Ltd. - Ag Nascadh Pobail an Iarthair
> http://www.airwire.ie
> Phone: 091-395 000
> Registered Office: Moy, Kinvara, Co. Galway, 091-395 000 - Registered in
> Ireland No. 508961
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