911 Needs More Money
January 29th, 2010 | by admin |Beginning in March, Costa Ricans may be paying an additional ¢85 colones on their telephone bills – fixed line and cellular – that will go towards financing the costs of the 911 emergency services.
Currenlty the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) applies a ¢79.56 colones charge on all telephone bills. If the request by 911 is approved by the Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (Sutel), the charge will increase to ¢166.49.
The director of the 911 emergency service, Rodolfo Jugo, says the increase will allow the service to have an additional ¢2.5 billion colones for operating cost for 2010.
Jugo says the increase is necessary to cover the costs of providing adequate emeregency response services due to an increase in calls.
