20 Dec
2010
20 Dec
'10
7:09 p.m.
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):
http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2010-December/029444.html
As someone who has a "City Telephone Tax" on both my cellular and wireline bills, I beg to differ. Owen