Your cell phone bill might be going up soon.
The Michigan Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would tack at least 19 cents a month on your cell phone or VOIP phone bill to pay the cost of enhanced 911 service.
Landline phone customers now pay 29 cents a month to subsidize the system. The sense is that this is discriminatory and all phone service customers should help foot the bill for emergency phone service.
The legislation would attach the fee to all phone service, but lower the fee to 19 cents for everyone.
Seems fair, but some might argue that cell phone users are more apt to use 911 to help save lives because they see more accidents and other emergencies to report to authorities than phone users at home.