Aww … poor little ISPs.

  • Hirom@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    911 and similar emergency numbers always cost money.

    In many places individuals pays for it through taxes, but people may not realize it because there’s 1 tax and 1 big budget that pays for many different public services.

    In the US I guess the cost is separated from other public services, and paid through ISP via a fee.

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      I’m just here wondering who out there wouldn’t want to be able to call the emergency line.

      It shouldn’t be a separate fee, but rather incorporated into the tax that pays for all the emergency services anyway.

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        It’s a tax. You can’t refuse to pay it, it’s just itemized out like that. Only way to avoid paying it is to not pay for a phone.

        It is a regressive tax which is bad (everyone who has a phone line pays the same instead of taxing the rich more) but there are bigger worries in America.