Ask Consumer 6: The Federal Customer Line Charge

A viewer had a question about some charges on her local telephone bill. She says the Federal Customer Line Charge went up from $3.50 to $4.35. She called her phone company, but says they couldn't

Tuesday, October 10th 2000, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

A viewer had a question about some charges on her local telephone bill. She says the Federal Customer Line Charge went up from $3.50 to $4.35. She called her phone company, but says they couldn't tell her why the charge was different. Consumer 6 called the Federal Communications Commission, and a spokesperson says they recently combined two federal charges into one lower charge.

The previous charges were called the Federal Subscriber Line and Interexchange Carrier Charge. Itâ€™s now combined into the Federal Customer Line Charge. The F-C-C says consumers are actually saving money

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