Joe Delahaye -> Ross Cassell wrote:

 >> Its free here, its just that every phone user pays a modest tax to
 JD> help fund
 >> the system. But the majority of emergency services derive their
 JD> funding via
 >> general fund. Get real I aint gonna miss that 61 cents.



 JD> Yeah, but those 61 cents plus the other little fees charged to you
 JD> guys over there, add up rather quickly.  We too get to pay the 911 fee
 JD> here unfortunately.  Then they expect the carriers to absorb the cost
 JD> of various other services that they MUST supply by law.  Of course you
 JD> know who is going to absorb that cost.  It aint the carriers.

Of course - they are in business to make a dollar.

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regards

David

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