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...estimated $1 billion the industry will have to spend to upgrade its networks to accommodate the change, but consumers will be picking up that tab; some providers are already collecting a small surcharge.) Even carriers that end up with a net gain in subscribers will lose money in handset subsidies, sales commissions and activation costs, Entner says...
...counsel for the Consumers Union: "It makes the market more efficient and leads to better services and better prices." Today cell-phone customers often stick with an unsatisfactory service to avoid not just the costs and inconvenience of changing their number but also the expense of buying a new handset and canceling their existing contract...
...conquer the bane of headsets and bring the flair of pimping, another modern pastime, to the bland world of cell phones. As he says on his website (www.ai.mit.edu/~rahimi), “I am the coolest stud at MIT University—I hacked an old school telephone handset onto my cell-phone. Now I walk around Cambridge, MA, looking like a phat pimp...
...sort of ‘technology pimp,’” he explains, “but a lot of Europeans bought into it. They really think I’m this ‘phat dude’ that just happens to carry a rotary-phone handset around.” Rahimi’s real reason for inventing the phone was a technology conference for Third World countries that took place last December. He took home second place for his unique device. By attaching a huge archaic handset to his tiny Nokia cell phone...
...most talked about and admired private companies in China, a team of mobile-phone engineers was very busy on a recent weekday morning--busy reading sports articles and playing solitaire and Ping-Pong. One engineer, at least, worked on a circuit board, prying it out of a plastic handset with a box cutter. "This team is young," said a supervisor. "They don't really know what they're doing...