Another unnecessary choice made for you
Thursday, 19 May 2005 | 87 readers so far
Congress likes to make choices - a lot. Every choice that Congress makes is one less choice that you get to make.
Today, Congress chose to force you to pay for 911 services if you use VoIP. It doesn’t matter if you want 911 or not.
I’ve called 911 before and been told they were too busy to send anyone. People abuse the system all the time. Operators are often poorly educated and poorly paid, as well as unethusiastic, displaying all the typical personal concern about your problem(s) you’ve come to expect from bureaucrats. Sure, 911 saves lives, sometimes. But it should not be forced on me, especially if it costs me money.
I don’t appreciate other people making choices for me. Congress sucks. I wish they would focus on real problems.
1 May 20th, 2005 at 8:29 am
cl says:
vonage.comI agree. I currently have Vonage and pay just over $16/month for 500 minutes, which I never even come close to using. I do have 911 though them, but I’ve yet to check to see if it actually goes to 911 or to the actual dispatcher itself. I went to Vonage because they were much cheaper than Sprint, which is the only carrier in my area. Sprint wanted $35/month just to have a basic phone line. Then I would need to obtain a long distance carrier so I’d be looking at over $50/month opposed to the $16 I’m paying now. Now my costs will probably go up with Vonage too! Where is my option to opt-out?
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2 June 5th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
ellie drey says:
I currently have Vonage and pay just over $16/month for 500 minutes also, which I use. I do have 911 through them i think, but I haven’t checked to see if it actually works.I dont want to make a false alarm call to check 911. I went to Vonage because they were much cheaper than the rest of the carriers in my area. I agree that ” Sure, 911 saves lives, sometimes. But it should not be forced on me, especially if it costs me money.” I think especially if it doesnt work.I dont mind paying for it as long as it works and saves my life someday.
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