Fee Definitions
Updated November 1, 2024
Invoice Processing Fee: This fee supports costs for bill processing. The fee is applied to all customer accounts to support costs for call detail record processing, invoice presentation, and needed detail to customers’ invoice.
Printed Statement Fee: This fee is assessed for the cost of producing and delivering a printed statement. You can avoid this fee, in full, by signing up for electronic invoice delivery.
Change Order Fee: Service charges for changes in your Telesystem solution are billed at $25/per 15 minutes with a minimum charge of $25.
Operation Support System (OSS) Fee: This is a fee associated to incumbent local carriers charging Telesystem and other exchange carriers a per line fee for OSS.
Access Recovery Fee: This fee is associated with terminating/originating and communicating with other carrier networks in the delivery of voice traffic.
You may see this appear on your bill as one of the following:
Network/Internet Cost Recovery Fee: This charge is assessed to recover the costs to continuously upgrade, secure, and improve network performance. This fee applies to local loop, internet ports, and broadband circuits.
Regulatory, Compliance and Intellectual Property (RCIP) Fee: The fee is assessed to offset regulatory, legal, intellectual property and compliance-related expenses, including those related to customer privacy protection, anti-fraud protection, and number portability.
Equipment Protection Charge: This fee is assessed to protect all equipment used in delivering service. This charge ensures that we can replace faulty or end-of-life equipment at no additional fee to our customers.
Power Recovery Fee: Due to the rising cost of energy, this fee is assessed to recover a portion of the increased energy expense in our colocation facilities.
Local Number Portability (LNP) Fee: This fee is assessed to recover costs to allow customers to change local services providers within a service territory without having to change telephone numbers.
You may see this appear on your bill as one of the following:
Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge (PICC): The PICC is a monthly charge assessed on long distance service lines, so that customers can access the interstate telecommunications network to place and receive interstate long distance calls.
You may see this appear on your bill as one of the following:
Carrier Line Charge (CLC): This fee is assessed to recover costs associated with the enablement of long-distance services and phone number connectivity.
You may see this appear on your bill as one of the following:
Credit Card Processing Fee: This fee is assessed on a one-time payment via an accepted credit card. This fee is not applied to credit card payments that are set up to be recurring.
E911 Fee: This fee is assessed for maintaining the latest technology for 911 services and compliances with federal regulations such as Ray Baums and Kari’s Law.
You may see this appear on your bill as one of the following:
EMERGENCY CHANGES
If you experience an outage due to circumstances out of your control (power outage, equipment failure, etc) we will assist you in call forwarding your main telephone number of your SIP Trunk, PRI, Auto Attendant or any other mission critical telephone number and remove the call forwarding once the event has been cleared.