Rogers raising wireless 911 fee (CBC)

[Drew Wilson]

Rogers Wireless is raising the emergency 911 fee cellphone customers pay monthly to 75 cents from the current 50-cent charge.

The company, Canada's largest wireless provider with nearly eight million customers, says the increase matches fees charged by other cellphone companies.

More... (http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/12/rogers-wireless-emergency-fee.html#ixzz0iAy8xazq)

Nothing has said, "Because we can" quite like this in quite some time. Stupid.

[moneoa]

Rogers Wireless is Canadian for "Highway Robbery" I never had the worst service than when I was with Rogers/Fido. They nickle and dime you to death.

[drtoker]

How does this work exactly, when any cell phone without service can call 911?
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/16/technology/old-cell-phones-can-still-call-911.html?pagewanted=1

Or is this just in the USA?

[moneoa]

How does this work exactly, when any cell phone without service can call 911?
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/16/technology/old-cell-phones-can-still-call-911.html?pagewanted=1

Or is this just in the USA?nope, no free calls to no service phones here. When you sign a contract they charge you the 911 "access fee" and some charge a "system access fee" It is as canadian as Tim Hortons Coffee and is not like that anywhere else in the world.

The word we like to use up here is Gouging, see there are only 6 Cell phone providers in Canada and 3 of them are owned by the same companies (so really make that only 3 providers to choose from)

This is why we pay some of the highest mobility fees of the developed world.

In fact some 3rd world copuntries pay less than we do for mobile service. A typical monthly plan will run you 80+ dollars in most cases

[mountain_rage]

nope, no free calls to no service phones here. When you sign a contract they charge you the 911 "access fee" and some charge a "system access fee" It is as canadian as Tim Hortons Coffee and is not like that anywhere else in the world.

The word we like to use up here is Gouging, see there are only 6 Cell phone providers in Canada and 3 of them are owned by the same companies (so really make that only 3 providers to choose from)

This is why we pay some of the highest mobility fees of the developed world.

In fact some 3rd world copuntries pay less than we do for mobile service. A typical monthly plan will run you 80+ dollars in most cases

Few countries have our lack of population density. We are probably still be gouged, but I hate the argument that a country with 10 times our population density has lower rates so we should have lower rates too.