The government allows us to keep our numbers if we switch plans. The cost? You think it would be none, right? Wrong. It costs each cell phone user $1.10 a month for this 'service', even if you do not even want to use it. You are forced to have it.
Now, $1.10 X 150 million cell phone users(according to cbs news) X 12 months equals... 1.98 billion a year.
Where is this money going? There is no way in hell it costs that much money to run this program that might be useful to a handful of people.
Want to hear something else? Because of the new GPS chips in certain phones, we all have to pay $.40 for E911. Think it costs $720 million to run that program? Why do the people who cannot utilize this service have to pay for it?
I think we're seeing government corruption at its best here.
Now, $1.10 X 150 million cell phone users(according to cbs news) X 12 months equals... 1.98 billion a year.
Where is this money going? There is no way in hell it costs that much money to run this program that might be useful to a handful of people.
Want to hear something else? Because of the new GPS chips in certain phones, we all have to pay $.40 for E911. Think it costs $720 million to run that program? Why do the people who cannot utilize this service have to pay for it?
I think we're seeing government corruption at its best here.