Ever look at one of your regular "long term" bills, like Bezeq or the gas company, electric company, etc, and wonder what "tashlum kavua", or "fixed payment" includes or refers to? I know I have.

MK Eitan Cabel (Hamachane Hatzioni) has proposed a law, that was passed yesterday, that is meant to protect the consumer by requiring companies to specify what "fixed payment" means on their bills. They will have to detail the various items and services included in that fixed payment and detail the cost of each.

Cabel explain that this fixed payment is not a military secret or the top secret ingredients of Coca Cola and there is nor reason the consumer should not know what he is paying for. If the companies cannot explain what the tashlum kavua is for, they can get rid of it and stop charging the customer for it.
source: Kol Hai News