[133940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schultze)
Mon Dec 20 13:37:48 2010
From: Steve Schultze <sjs@Princeton.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <822ED2E3-9D98-4ED7-AD18-F07976FC868A@delong.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:37:40 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 20, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> Cities currently do not recoup anything from telephone and internet =
services. Cities are capped at 5% of gross revenue from video services, =
and the definition of what they can recoup has been consistently =
narrowed by the FCC, as I noted here (in response to the first message =
in which you raised this concern):
>>=20
>> http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2010-December/029444.html
>=20
> As someone who has a "City Telephone Tax" on both my cellular and =
wireline
> bills, I beg to differ.
Fascinating. You appear to be right. For some reason I thought this =
was standardized at the federal level by the FCC, but it seems to vary =
depending on the state. =20
For example, it seems that such taxes are prohibited in Oregon:
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/305.823
But permitted in New York:
http://www.dps.state.ny.us/TelecomTaxesSurcharges.html
("Not to exceed 1% except in Buffalo, Rochester and Yonkers, where the =
rate may not exceed 3%.")=
