How, exactly, does taxation make the telephone company sleazy?
Bundled in the 75% fees are cost of doing business crap.
There are now fees for ‘cost of regulation compliance’, etc
Old school was that this was part of the overall business overhead, not billed out separatly.
They market landlines with reduced fees for 12 months and then jack up the rates and make a customer come back to beg for the discount back.
Done with that crap.