[194070] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Regulatory Recovery Surcharge for Canadian corporations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Graham Johnston)
Tue Mar 14 10:49:37 2017
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From: Graham Johnston <johnstong@westmancom.com>
To: 'Eric Dugas' <edugas@unknowndevice.ca>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:41:03 +0000
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We don't explicitly pay a charge like this for the transit bandwidth we pur=
chase in Toronto from an international carrier, and I doubt that it is buil=
t into the cost without any mention of it. I've never heard of such a thing=
.
Graham Johnston
Network Planner
Westman Communications Group
204.717.2829
johnstong@westmancom.com
-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Eric Dugas
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 9:04 AM
To: NANOG
Subject: Regulatory Recovery Surcharge for Canadian corporations
I recently negotiated a new contract with a tier1 for IP transit in Canada =
and
just got the invoice. I saw a "new" Regulatory Recovery Surcharge of 10% th=
e
MRC (before taxes) that I've never seen before. Do any of my Canadian fello=
ws
on this list are paying this outrageous surcharge? =20
=20
Other than saying "it's in the MSA", our rep, their tax and billing departm=
ent
are not useful at all. The actual rate is not specified anywhere in the MSA=
or
in the contract. =20
