I don't make a lot of personal posts so please bear with me. #Rufus hasn't been doing well for the past week or so. I mean, he's 13 (at least), and has slowed down due to age, but the past week or two he's been acting like every movement is a Herculean effort. A few times in the past couple of weeks his rear legs have given out on him completely to where I've had to pick him up and carry him which is, in itself, telling. Rufus has always hated being carried and struggled continuously when I did so. Yesterday while petting him I noticed two golf-ball sized things up under his chin. Now, they may be benign lipomas as Rufus is covered with them (one one each thigh, one on each shoulder, one on his chest and a few smaller bumps here and there) or they may be indicative of something else. I'm no vet and aside from emergency medic battlefield training I have no medical experience whatsoever, but these new things seem to be where your or mine lymph nodes are located....
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Especially text messaging. The cost of text messaging is relatively cheap, but telecoms still insist on charging outrageous fees on them.
Check your bill. Cell or land line... Its there.... 'Access Fee'
That tax has been in place for decades and is justified as a means to maintain critical infrastructure.
Here is essentially the explanation I got from the director of operations for the huge switch building in down town Cincinnati (Cincinnati Bells main data center - I used to COLO several servers there It is huge and has like 80,000 gallons of fuel stored on the roof)... That location being part of the federal 'up-time' laws.
The bulk of those excise fees are distributed to the carriers... But they are not permitted to allow POTS equipment to fail... They are required by federal law to keep it operational. Regardless of the cost... Because the costs are considered as already reimbursed.
The carries can do what ever they want with the proceeds from the tax... But they still have to keep the equipment in place and operational.
They come out WAY ahead.