There are many small fees in your monthly billing from Bevcomm. Below you will find a explanation of those charges.
Network Access Charge: The FCC allows local telephone companies to bill customers for a portion of the costs of providing access.
Subscriber Line Charge: This is a federally mandated and regulated fee that all telephone users pay. This nationally pooled money is used to subsidize areas of the country where it costs more to provide phone service, similar to the areas we live.
911 Fee: This charge is imposed by local governments to help pay for emergency services such as fire and rescue. Local telephone companies are obligated to route emergency calls from customers to the proper Public Safety answering center. Costs associated with the 911 systems are determined by your local government. The local telephone company collects those charges through your monthly telephone bill and then pays those amounts to the provider of 911 service in your area.
Federal Universal Service Charge (FUSC): Phone service provides connections to emergency services, to government services and to surrounding communities, the USF (Universal Service Fund) helps to make phone service affordable and available to all Americans. This includes consumers with low incomes, those living in areas where the costs of providing telephone service is high, schools and libraries and rural health care providers.
TAM: Telecommunications Access Minnesota is a fee that is charged on each line you have. It is used to help provide telephone service to people who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired.
TAP: Telecommunications Assistance Program is a state mandated fee charged on each telephone line you have. It is used to help provide telephone service to Minnesota’s low-income residents.
Universal Service Fund (USF): This fund was created by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The Universal Service Fund is a special program that collects money to support telecommunications in areas of the country where it is very expensive to provide service. You’ll notice that this charge is tied to your long distance bill. The Long Distance companies are required to support the fund, but they are allowed to recover their contributions from their customers. Ultimately, this program benefits you and your rural community by keeping the cost of phone service extremely affordable
Federal Tax: The Federal Government imposes a 3% tax on local access charges.
Minnesota State Tax: This is a 6.875% charge imposed by the state of Minnesota, and local and municipal government, on goods and services.
City Franchise Fee: A cable television franchise fee in the United States, the stems from a community’s basic right to charge for use of the property it owns. The cable television franchise fees represent part of the compensation a community receives in exchange for the cable operator’s occupation and the right-of-way use of public property. A franchise fee is not a tax; it is a rental charge.
WI State Aid Libraries-School Fee: This support, referred to as E-rate support, provides affordable telecommunications and Internet access services to connect schools and libraries to the Internet. This support goes to service providers that provide discounts on eligible services to eligible schools, school districts, libraries, and consortia of these entities.