Did the FCC require long distance companies to bill consumers for Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charges?
• No. The FCC does not require long distance companies to put the Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge or any other charges or surcharges — on your telephone bill. • Because there is competition for long distance service, the FCC does not regulate how long distance companies compute their charges or the amount of those charges. As a result of this flexibility, long distance companies are taking very different approaches to whether and how they are charging their customers to reflect the Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charges they pay. • It is important to remember that the long distance companies’ interstate access charge payments to local telephone companies did not increase. The per-minute charge long distance companies pay to incumbent local telephone companies for each call made by their customers was reduced by an even greater amount than the amount they pay for their Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge payments and payments they make to ensure that all American
