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Monthly plans start at $20, but if you use the phone very infrequently, it may be cheaper to buy prepaid calling cards. The best deals: AT&T Wireless's $10 card, good for 45 days, and Cingular's $20 card, with a shelf life of 90 days. Either way the cost works out to $6.70 a month...
...both Safe Horizon and FEMA, local workers were hired quickly in the first few weeks after the attacks, often from job fairs and temp agencies. The former assistance worker says he became "disheartened" by an atmosphere at the centers in which staffers would stuff prepaid phone cards intended for victims into their FEMA aprons and in which computers and other equipment available only to employees turned up missing. This worker, like many among the center staff, was let go when the tide of aid applicants slowed this spring...
...from the Enron fiasco, it is that all should be wary of a corporation announcing a trade that, upon closer examination, isn’t really a trade at all. By using an accounting gimmick to disguise its enormous debts as derivatives trades—known “prepaid swaps”—Enron’s management conned its shareholders and employees out of millions of dollars. Now it looks like the Harvard Corporation is trying to pull the same “false swap” scam...
...more money sending a guy to your door than it was likely to earn on your order--Netflix uses the lightweight DVDs and the ubiquity of the U.S. mail to full effect. "Putting a DVD into an envelope for 34 [cents] and having it mailed back in the same prepaid envelope is just brilliant," says Jonathan Gaw, research manager for the analyst firm IDC. Though Netflix took a net loss of $38 million on $76 million in revenue in 2001, the young company expects to have an operating profit this quarter and revenues of at least $100 million...
...Meanwhile, Akhnouche's testimony has cheered French officials. "His address book is a veritable resource of Islamist operatives," says one. And European officials tell Time that Reid's old prepaid telephone cards have been discovered. One was used to place calls to the cell phone of Nizar Trabelsi, the alleged would-be bomber of the U.S. embassy in Paris. (Trabelsi has denied that he was ever part of a terrorist group...