OT - Cellphone billing

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:29:33PM -0500,  wrote:
> Perhaps what is needed if you want sensible prices is that you have a
> nationwide GSM network and any company that wants to provide service can
> use it as long as they pay their share of the maintainance costs of the
> network.

I forgot to say that this will probably never happen since no politician
in Canada seems interested in publicly funded infastructure and isntead
assume commercial companies will take care off everything.

Any suggestion that there should be publicly funded stuff seems to just
get people thinking you are a communist or at least a socialist.

Some projects just can't be done by individuals.  I would for example
think that extending the subway further north to where I live would make
life easier and me use it more.  It would save me money if it was there
and I didn't have to drive as much, so I would be willing to spend $500
or $1000 to have it happen, probably even a good chunk of that every
year since I save that in car usage.  If 1 million people thought the
same thing then together there might actually be enough money to build
it.  Organizing that would just be way too hard.  Hence we have taxes
that are supposed to accomplish these things that in the long term save
money, but unfortunately at least in Toronto no such thing seems to ever
happen and instead we just have everyone waste hours in their cars stuck
on the road.  I for one would have no problem with paying another 500
dollars a year in property taxes if the transit system was actually
expanded to a system capable of serving the toronto area, since I would
easily save that much on other transportation costs not to mention in
time.

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