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Re: make landlines cheap and people will keep it just for 911 said by morbo:Seriously. Make landlines cheap as candy and people will hold on to them "just in case" of an emergency. The problem is a dial tone and taxes costs $25. Want caller id or any other feature? Add $10. AT&T and all wireless companies make a killling off of wireless phones. I pay approx $18/mo for a basic landline lifeline svc and that includes all the fees/taxes/etc. $8.20/mo for the service and $9.52/mo for all the gov't ripoff. So, if you want someone to blame, blame all the gov'ts(Federal/State/Local) for taxing everything to death.
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| Thats just to trick you into being angry at the government, that $6.30 Federal subscriber line charge goes right back to Verizon. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to fAcEtIOUs
And what percentage of households qualify for lifeline? sure. |
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| said by patcat88:And what percentage of households qualify for lifeline? sure. In NJ anyone can get the $8.20/mo service. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
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A lot of the "Government Ripoff" you speak of however is actually slush type funds that go back to the Telcos themselves.
Personally, I feel cheap lifeline service should be available WITHOUT all the Government fluff and slush fund kickbacks to the ILEC. In exchange the line could be limited in some fashion (IE metered billing would be fine with me in this case.)
The phone line itself should cost $10 or less.
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