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Ever wonder why your $40 wireless plan actually costs you $50 or more a month? The cell-phone industry likes to claim that rates have fallen 32% since 1998 and that the culprits behind higher bills are government taxes, which average 12% nationwide and run as high as 19.6% in California. But companies have also jacked up an array of their own fees for all sorts of services you might expect to be free. Some examples...
...WIRELESS, CINGULAR, NEXTEL AND SPRINT PCS have raised directory-assistance fees from less than $1 to anywhere from $1.19 to $1.25 a call...
...WIRELESS AND T-MOBILE bill you for airtime if you make a call that rings unanswered for 30 seconds...
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...their backs in such industries as telecom, more start-ups like WaveSmith are finding their first foothold abroad, especially in Japan and Korea. Those countries haven't escaped the global tech collapse, but their governments and companies continue to spend, especially on broadband Internet access and third-generation wireless technology. But as always in global business, connections count...