"This letter is to inform you that beginning in April BellSouth will charge a regulatory cost recovery fee of $2.97 per month for FastAccess DSL service. This regulatory cost recovery fee is not a tax of charge imposed by a government entity.

The fee will help to offset the increased cost BellSouth incurs in providing FastAccess DSL service."

I cut out the non-relevant parts, but the rest of the language tries to confuse the reader into thinking this is the USF tax from the government, and is going to be used to provide phone service to rural areas and schools. But it's all double-speak. When read carefully, the letter simply says the rates are going up because BellSouth wants the money, and the consumer has to pay for the duration of the contract.

By the way, when I signed up for the service with BellSouth originally, I did ask what the market price was for the servcice, which was 49.95 per month at the time. This was not an introductory period that was expiring.