While there is no vaild reason for a monthly reoccuring on a cross connect. Unless, there is a tech going out and dusting the cross-connect every month? Any carrier who charges monthly chrages on a wire hanging in D-Ring, while collecting money for the cross connected parties to even be in the same building, is not very nice.
A one time fee ($250 to $1,000) if they are doing the labor is much sensible.
And of course the D-Ring is free, the wall/ceiling where it hangs is free, the utilities needed so you can see what is hanging in that D-Ring, the insurance to cover the landlords butt when you fall off the ladder, the water & plumbing so's you can wash out your soiled undies and rinse off the spurting blood from the arterial puncture from that fall... all free. --bill