Why does Raw Bandwidth collect FUSF if its not a telephone company?
One of the popular misunderstandings about FUSF is the misnomer that only telephone companies can line-item FUSF. FUSF is directly assessed against interstate telecom revenue of telephone companies, and the FCC’s rules govern how they can pass that on to their customers. When an ISP places a line item for FUSF on its customers DSL bills, this is purely a contractual issue between the ISP and its customers; there is no legal restriction against this being done. (See below for why we do this.) The one good point some of the more vocal opponents of ISPs itemizing FUSF have is that some ISPs bury FUSF in their fine print; Raw Bandwidth itemizes this fee and lists it on its main DSL pricing page prominently in the same font size as its base service charges.
