Word: cellular
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...cost-effective strategy is to nominate either your cellular or your land-line service as your main communications link. Load it with the monthly minutes you need at the best possible price while subscribing to a bare-bones plan for your little-used secondary phone. If your land line is your primary phone, you can get a basic cell-phone plan from T-Mobile for $19.99 a month, including a free phone. That will give you 60 minutes to use anytime, plus 500 weekend and nighttime minutes. Be careful, however, not to underestimate how often you use a cell phone...
...billion a month in the U.S.--spammers are targeting your mobile phone. "Not only do you have to wade through all of it, but you have to pay for it when it's on your phone," says David Chamberlain, research director for Probe Research in Cedar Knolls, N.J. Increasingly, cellular-service providers are offering a limited number of free text messages per month, but additional messages can cost from 10¢ to 25¢ each. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991--amended in June to include the highly publicized National Do Not Call Registry...
...Tokyo-based Index Corp., she has not completely abandoned her female intuition. Five years ago, Index was struggling; the website-design firm's founders were dipping into their personal savings just to make the payroll. Index thought salvation might be found in a different line of work--collaborating with cellular giant NTT DoCoMo, which was developing Internet-enabled mobile phones and needed partners to provide new content and services. Ogawa, 37 and single, focused on the one subject she knew mattered most to the young women who were--and still are--Japan's heaviest cell-phone users. "What are university...
...caused something of a revolution by introducing an inexpensive alternative to the mobile phone in a regulatory environment fuzzier than his facial hair. UTStarcom's Xiao Lingtong (Little Smart) handsets may look and act like cell phones, but in China, where the government allows only two firms to provide cellular service, Wu has had to convince telecom mandarins that cell phones are actually just a wireless extension of fixed-line phones--like household cordless phones on steroids. UTStarcom doesn't provide the actual telephony service, but the handsets, base stations and switching equipment it makes allow China's citizens...
...officer was dispatched to Loker Commons to take a report of a stolen cellular phone...