Hi Jane,
The USF fee is seperate and different from the federal 3% telecom tax. The USF fee is billed on out of state long distance calls, not instate long distance calls.
PICC fees are fees that are charged to business accounts only. The first phone line is free, but every phone line after the first is charged a monthly fee. Opex charges $3.25 per line for this fee. The FCC lets companies charge up to $5.50 per line for this fee.
I don’t know what a credit switching fee is, but Opex will credit the switching fee if your local company charges you to change your long distance carrier.
The tollfree numbers you quoted are right, but the state to state rate is 3.9 cents per minute instead of 2.7 cents per minute because of the part of Florida you live in.
The changover will be sealmless and you shouldn’t have any downtimes at all. Opex will send the switch request to your local carrier, they will switch your service and send a noticve to your old company.
When you sign up for service, you will need to fax in a RespOrg for your toll free number, and that will be printed on the page you need to fill out and send it. The website will give you that form during the signup process.
Opex does most of their presales suport via email to keep costs down. Once you sign up for service, you will get an email with all of their customer service info, including toll free numbers. If you sign up and decide you don’t want the service, then you can just cancel it, since here are no contracts.
Opex: http://opex.riveroffers.com/?crid=13524 or http://www.opex-ld.com/
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