> paid each month by the customers...??>>
>
> Watcha wanna bet that they don't! You cannot bill someone for services
> that they do not receive.
Both the govt and private sector do that all the time with all sorts of thing .
We have a 911 fee. Oddly enough, both counties where had a phone chose to impose the maximum amount, not something less. Basically, they took advtg of it as a tax, rather than a basis to improve the system, which they would do when they got around to it.