[194071] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regulatory Recovery Surcharge for Canadian corporations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Dugas)
Tue Mar 14 11:00:44 2017
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:59:31 +0000
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To: Graham Johnston <johnstong@westmancom.com>
From: Eric Dugas <edugas@unknowndevice.ca>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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From what I've gathered so far, every other carriers that we use are either
invoicing us from Canada or outside the US (e.g. Telia from Vancouver, BC and
Cogent from Toronto, ON).
A couple of minutes after firing my first email, our rep called me to follow
up. He'll escalate this as far as he can with his COO and CFO and suggested
two scenarios.
On Mar 14 2017, at 10:41 am, Graham Johnston <johnstong@westmancom.com> wrote:
> We don't explicitly pay a charge like this for the transit bandwidth we
purchase in Toronto from an international carrier, and I doubt that it is
built 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% the
MRC (before taxes) that I've never seen before. Do any of my Canadian fellows
on this list are paying this outrageous surcharge?
>
>
>
> Other than saying "it's in the MSA", our rep, their tax and billing
department
are not useful at all. The actual rate is not specified anywhere in the MSA or
in the contract.
