Vonage Starts Charging 'Regulatory Recovery Fee'

slavitos writes "Vonage sent an email announcing that starting with 'your next billing cycle, Vonage will begin to charge a Regulatory Recovery Fee of $1.50 per phone number. This is a fee that Vonage charges its customers to recover required costs of Federal and State Universal Service Funds as well as other related fees and surcharges. State and Federal agencies collect these fees from communications providers to fund public projects such as rural and library communications programs.' That could mean that Vonage is losing at least some ground in its battle against government VOIP regulations."

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Re:I don't understand

[NanoGator]

"You don't use Linux, do you? "

Nope. I like sitting down and using my computer, dun have time to endlessly poke at it. I don't intend to sound like I'm Linux bashing here, but it is an important point of using Windows or OSX. It's nice to have a UI tied to everything you want to do. I don't like having to know a bunch of commands that don't really indicate what they do. Ls, ps, mkdir, kill, ll, cd, etc. If it weren't for Midnight Commander, I'm not sure I would have gotten into using Linux at all.

Re:Speeding ticket fee explained

[C10H14N2]

And every time you masturbate, god kills a kitten.