My guess would be the phone companies, realizing that
demand for such a plan was likely to skyrocket, quietly worked with
their congressional-critter friends to have it outlawed (in the
consumer interest, of course.)
Wrong. It's available, it's used. In the District it costs $3.00 a month.
It's Federally mandated and funded by the Universal Service Fund,
which is funded by a surcharge that the telco collects from all non
Lifeline subscibers. It costs me just as much to maintain and service
a Lifeline account as it does any other.
If you are prepared to discuss FCC and state regulations and tariffs
intelligently, I welcome that.
If all you want to do is bash the evil phone company, fine.
But I won't shut up in the face of uninformed criticism.
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