Depending on your provider and usage, you can expect an increase of anywhere from 40 cents to $3-$4 a month
Some Texans can expect their phone bills to go up starting this month after the Public Utility Commission of Texas adopted a rate hike in July.– Many Texans are about to see an increase in their monthly cellphone bill because of a rate hike adopted by the Public Utility Commission in July.
“The Texas Universal Service Fund actually has existed for 50 years, and recently, because of some decisions made by the Public Utility Commission, that fund is replenished by a small fee that all telephone customers pay a little bit of the calls they make in-state into a fund. And that fund helps to keep the cost of rural service affordable,” said Mark Seale, executive director of the Texas Telephone Association.
“Two years ago, the PUC decided not to gently increase that fund from 3.3 percent to about 6 percent,” said Seale. “They just didn’t follow the law. The court told them to follow the law, and now they’ve had to make up for their past decisions with the current decision to jump the rate from 3 percent to 24 percent,” said Seale.
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