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A lot of those fees are not usage taxes or similar, but rather costs of doing business that an ISP has chosen to pass on to customers as seperate fees so they c
by Macha 3y ago
A lot of those fees are not usage taxes or similar, but rather costs of doing business that an ISP has chosen to pass on to customers as seperate fees so they can keep the headline price low.
It's like if your supermarket advertised their prices as $50, and then you go up to the till and it's $60 because they've included a "shelf stacking fee", and they claim that they can't just include that in their advertised price because their shelf stackers' wages vary by jurisdiction.
- legitster 3y ago> A lot of those fees are not taxes or similar, but rather costs of doing business that an ISP has chosen to pass on to customers as separate fees so they can keep the headline price low. This kind of fee hiding is already conclusively illegal for a variety of reasons and not at all what the FCC is discussing in this article. This is much more akin to how, a grocery store might have to disclose a liquor tax as part of the sales price instead of the sales tax.