Followed by a six month government contractor bidding process, two years of development hell, and a half-based solution that either doesn't work or requires fifty extra convoluted steps.
They do but then the companies pay it forward to their customers. There’s a whole list of itemized fees on a cellular bill. Those aren’t collected “for” the government. The company is just itemizing it for you, probably so that they can neglect to advertise it in their contract sticker price.
