Posted on 12/12/2018 5:19:16 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Californians may or may not type OMG at the news, but texting may soon come with an extra fee on their mobile phone bills. State regulators are weighing a tax on text messaging to help fund a program that makes phone service available to low-income residents.
A texting surcharge could help sustain the Public Purpose Program budget, which has risen to $998 million in 2017 from $670 million in 2011, according to a report from the California Public Utilities Commission. Revenue from the telecom industry that funds the program has declined to $11.3 billion last year from $16.5 billion in 2011, the CPUC report stated.
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So - only texts generated by them, or also texts received by them....can visualize someone deciding to gang up on a Kalifornian by having a lot of texts sent from out of State to some unlucky people....
just another reason to deep six my cell and go totally off the grid
yep, Man don’t know a thing, what’s the vision, concrete the world into a rightious planet?
the world as it is is representation of a dead world without faith in God, through Christ..
Let’s tax Nancy and Chuck every time they speak because the stoopid it hurts to hear
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