FCC Regulatory Fees

*Effective August 1st, 2000, in response to Federal Regulatory action taken by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), we are "passing through" the MONTHLY "Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge" (PICC) to our customers as follows: Residential Users will NOT be charged anything.  One-Line Business Users will be charged $0.00.  Multi-Line Business Users will be charged $0.00 for the first line and, and $3.75 per month for EACH additional line on their account.

Also, effective January 1st, 2001, in response to Federal Regulatory action taken by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), we are "passing through" the "Universal Service Fund Surcharge" (USF) to our customers as follows: 6.88% (or .0688) on all inter-state and international calls (proceeds are contributed to the High Cost/Low Income Fund, Schools, Libraries, Rural Health Care, and Telecommunications Relay Services or "TRS Fund"). For more information, please go to http://www.fcc.gov/

Please Note: ALL long distance providers are REQUIRED to pay these charges to the appropriate regulatory agencies.

**Effective October 7, 1997 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted a surcharge on toll-free calls placed from payphones. This charge is collected on behalf of the payphone service providers and will be remitted to them. Therefore, if your 800/888/877/866/855 number receives a call from a payphone it will result in an additional one-time charge of 0.35¢ cents per call. Calling Card calls will also be affected - the 0.35¢ cent surcharge will be applied to your account each time you dial our toll-free access number to complete a calling card call from a payphone. For more information, please go to http://www.fcc.gov/.

Please Note: ALL long distance providers are REQUIRED to pay these charges to the appropriate regulatory agencies.