Tax and death are two things we can’t avoid in life. Sprint announced this week that it would not charge customers for the Federal Programs Cost Recovery fee, the Federal E911 surcharge, and the Wireless Local Number Portability fee.

You’re going to save a grand total of about $2.00 each month.  And yes this is peanuts compared to what you’re paying in monthly fees (I’d imagine).  Nonetheless, Sprint is going to charge a new administrative charge of $0.75 and a new regulatory charge of $0.20.

Sprint claims that the administrative charge will “help defray various costs imposed on us by other telecommunications carriers” while the regulatory charge is “being assessed to help defray costs of various federal, state and local regulatory programs.”  It seems like the government doesn’t mandate these two charges, so it begs the question whether the Cell Phone Consumer Empowerment Act of 2007 will challenge them (if it ever sees the light of day in Congress).  The legislation promises to ban any fees not expressly authorized by federal, state, or local governments.

[via crave.cnet.com]