§  54.712   Contributor recovery of universal service costs from end users.

   (a) Federal universal service contribution costs may be recovered
   through interstate telecommunications-related charges to end users. If
   a contributor chooses to recover its federal universal service
   contribution costs through a line item on a customer's bill the amount
   of the federal universal service line-item charge may not exceed the
   interstate telecommunications portion of that customer's bill times the
   relevant contribution factor.

   (b) [Reserved]

   [ 67 FR 79533 , Dec. 30, 2002, as amended at  68 FR 15672 , Apr. 1, 2003;
    71 FR 38797 , July 10, 2006]