here is their email about this new charge:<br><br><div style="direction: ltr;">Dear Valued <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Verizon</span> Online Customer,<br><br>Effective August 14, 2006, <span id="st" name="st" class="st">
Verizon</span>
Online will stop charging the FUSF (Federal Universal Service Fund)
recovery fee. We will stop being assessed the fee by our DSL network
suppliers. Therefore, we will no longer be recovering this fee from our
customers. The impact of the FUSF fee is as follows: for customers of <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Verizon</span> Online with service up to 768Kbps, the fee eliminated is $1.25 a month; for customers of <span id="st" name="st" class="st">
Verizon</span>
Online with service up to 1.5 Mbps or 3Mbps, the fee eliminated is
$2.83 a month (based on current FUSF surcharge amounts). On your bill
that includes charges for August 14, 2006 you will see either a partial
FUSF Recovery Fee or no FUSF line item at all, depending on your bill
cycle.<br><br>Starting August 26, 2006, <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Verizon</span>
Online will begin charging a Supplier Surcharge for all new DSL
customers, existing customers with a DSL monthly or bundle package, and
existing DSL annual plan customers at the time their current annual
plan expires. This surcharge is not a government imposed fee or a tax;
however, it is intended to help offset costs we incur from our network
supplier in providing <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Verizon</span> Online DSL service. The Supplier Surcharge will initially be set at $1.20 a month for <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Verizon</span> Online DSL customers with service up to 768Kbps and $2.70 per month for customers with DSL service at higher speeds.
<br><br>On balance your total bill will remain about the same as it has been or slightly lower.<br>For more information, see the Announcement in the Help section of <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Verizon</span> Central, located at
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://central.verizon.net/" target="_blank">http://central.<span id="st" name="st" class="st">verizon</span>.net</a><br><br>We regret the need to add this Supplier Surcharge, but we thank you for choosing high speed
<span id="st" name="st" class="st">Verizon</span> Online DSL. We appreciate and value your business.<br><br>Sincerely,<br></div><span class="sg"><br><br><span id="st" name="st" class="st">Verizon</span> Online<br>Broadband Customer Care Team
<br><br>kind of makes a person want to break a contract.<br></span><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel McQuay</b> <<a href="mailto:simplebob@gmail.com">simplebob@gmail.com</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>this kind of thing is ridiculous. as if verizown don't make enough money.
<br><br><div></div><div><span class="e" id="q_10d372a8c87ef402_1"><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Allen Earnest</b> <<a href="mailto:mark@mystikos.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
mark@mystikos.org
</a>> wrote:</span></span></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"></blockquote></div><div><span class="e" id="q_10d372a8c87ef402_3">
Zach wrote:<br>> On 8/22/06, Brent M. Rust <<a href="mailto:rust@lucasware.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
rust@lucasware.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> I won't even attempt to understand it. But Verizon seems to be making<br>>> sure it stays on top of the evilness list.<br>>> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14458159/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14458159/</a><br>>><br>>> They are imposing a surcharge for all DSL plans. The government is<br>>> phasing it's fee out so Verizon is adding it's higher cost fee in.<br>><br>
> This is disgusting.<br><br> From the article:<br>"Henson said the decision to impose the new surcharge now "is not<br>related at all to USF." She said she "would strongly disagree" with<br>criticisms that Verizon was in effect diverting to its own coffers money
<br>that had previously"<br><br>If they really wanted people to believe this, perhaps a good move would<br>have been to not announce both the end of the USF and the beginning of<br>the new surcharge in the SAME EMAIL to customers.
<br><br>Mark Earnest<br><br><br></span></div><div><span class="q">_______________________________________________<br>wplug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:wplug@wplug.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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</a><br><br><br><br></span></div><div></div></div><div><span class="sg"><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Daniel McQuay<br><a href="mailto:simplebob@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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