
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Nope… IP transit doesn’t pay into USF generally speaking.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">USF is billed as a separate line item (at least on the bills I get where it is a factor).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The “regulatory recovery fee” is a bs name telcos use to make it sound like a tax they are passing on to the government. In reality, it’s a slush fund to help pay for their lobbying efforts to get congress and various PUCs to help them screw over their customers even more.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 2, 2018, at 14:41 , Mike Hammett <<a href="mailto:nanog@ics-il.net" class="">nanog@ics-il.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Maybe this?</span></font><br class=""><br class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund</a></span></font><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;" class=""><a href="https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service-fund" class="">https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service-fund</a></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;" class=""><a href="https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service" class="">https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service</a><br class=""></span><br class=""><br class="">Kinda crappy they don't spell it out. Well, no, I guess USF would be closer to +-18%.<br class=""></font><br class=""><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span name="x" class=""></span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">-----</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Mike Hammett</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://www.ics-i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