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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / ATT Wireless / August 2003REGULATORY PROGRAMS FEE
Just got my bill What is REGULATORY PROGRAMS FEE ? Regulatory Programs Fee (RPF) is a charge from ATT (1.75/month) that they will eventually charge all customer's. It is to help offset the cost of line number portability (LNP) and enhanced 911 services, and other governments mandated programs.........blah, blah, blah.......a 1.75 surcharge. "Ted" <root@aol.com> wrote in article <biddo3$7nftm$1@ID-144666.news.uni-berlin.de>: > Just got my bill > > What is REGULATORY PROGRAMS FEE ? In my opinion it is BS. It is an imaginary, projected cost, for people whom they imagine they might loose to other carriers. Note that Verizon was in favor of this change and they don't plan on charging anywhere near so much (about 50 cents less). Most likely it is an attempt to collect on their lost legal battle over this matter. $1.75 times how many people? For a service that really isn't being provided? At this time there is more legal wrangling going on as everyone but Verizon tries to find ways to make switching carriers even more expensive. I think that Verizon realized that to impose this tariff on their customers would encourage them to leave. T-Mobile cannot afford to loose any of their customers. "Ted" <root@aol.com> wrote in article <biddo3$7nftm$1@ID-144666.news.uni-berlin.de>: > Just got my bill > > What is REGULATORY PROGRAMS FEE ? A small monthly charge that helps fund Cellular Companys compliance with various government-mandated programs (such as Local Number Portability, E-911, and Number Pooling). It is not a tax or a specific fee required to be collected by carriers on behalf of a governmental entity.  SignatureMark wmbray@hotmail.com (William Bray) wrote in article <vklj48pcp7d854@corp.supernews.com>: > In my opinion it is BS. It is an imaginary, projected cost, for people > whom they imagine they might loose to other carriers. Note that Verizon [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > [posted via phonescoop.com - free web access to the alt.cellular groups] It's not a projected cost for people they might lose. It's a way to get their money back for all the money that they've had to spend to change the way they do all their systems. Before they used to own sets of numbers by the blocks of 10,000 (0000-9999) and there's features used to be based on this. Since these blocks of numbers can ends up all over the place and they'll have to support pretty much an number they've had to spend a lot. I don't think that carriers will lose people b/c for every person that leaves T-Mobile to come to ATT, there's another leaving ATT to go with T-Mobile. wmbray@hotmail.com (William Bray) wrote in article <vklj48pcp7d854@corp.supernews.com>: > In my opinion it is BS. It is an imaginary, projected cost, for people > whom they imagine they might loose to other carriers. Note that Verizon [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > [posted via phonescoop.com - free web access to the alt.cellular groups] |
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