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Subject: Re: Latest Charge by Southwestern Bell
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Date: 20 Feb 90 08:00:04 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 116, message 7 of 8


) If your local govt is doing it's job, they are auditing the costs of
) providing this service, and should have it set up so that it is not
) just 50 cents in perpetuity, but for some limited period.

Perhaps they should.  In Volusia County, the installation tax has gone
away, but the $0.30/line monthly tax will surely never go down.  It
applies, of course, not only to voice lines but also to modems which
can't usefully dial 911.  Installation started in `83, at which time
everyone was assigned house numbers.

) After that they should be able to determine the ongoing costs of
) maintaining the system and paying PSAP operators.

The costs are fairly impressive.  In Volusia County (pop 350,000),
they expect 46900 calls this year, 20000 of which will be wrong
numbers (non-emergency calls).  They budget $861466 for this; divided
by the total number of calls, it works out to be $18.36/call.  Divided
by the number of emergency calls, it works out to be $32.02/call.

Are you SURE that the government is auditing the cost of this
service?

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