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."

Comments

Why should the government control everything?

[Amsterdam Vallon]

Anyone else sick of people taxing technology?

I thought the idea was to improve things using technology, not tax the improvements so much that they're not improvements anymore.

Who agrees? I'll enjoy analyzing your responses.