Assange, in the terminal, carried a threadbare blue backpack that contained hard drives, phone cards, and multiple cell phones.
It offers them "free money orders, " welfare-benefit pickups, prepaid phone cards and the real clincher:money transfers to relatives overseas.
Horror stories abound of travelers stranded with malfunctioning phone cards or racking up thousand-dollar cellphone bills for international roaming charges.
They then stashed this info on the magnetic strips of phone cards, and flew over to India to make withdrawls.
It offered subsidized handsets and prepaid phone cards, and cell service grew from 9 million subscribers in 2000 to 39 million today.
He says he could close the gap fast by selling cheap handsets activated with codes on prepaid phone cards, as he does in poor countries.
Local phone cards offer cheaper rates, but the potential for more headaches as well, including technical glitches and assistance or directions limited to the local language.
Miguel Vargas, president of the main opposition party at the time, had donated thousands of prepaid phone cards the night of the final contest so citizens could vote for their compatriot.
"The bulk of our sales come from the 60 and 25 cents-valued phone cards and this is because the people who buy them depend on a daily income, " said a senior marketer at Safaricom, a leading mobile phone service provider in Kenya.
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The Bangladeshi national bought cell phone SIM cards for the attackers at several locations inside India, the sources said Thursday.
The busy road is lined with shops selling garish synthetic saris and mobile phone sim cards, and signs advertise instant noodles, cough syrup and skin lightening creams.
Indian security sources told CNN sister network CNN-IBN on Thursday that a Bangladeshi national bought cell phone SIM cards for the attackers at several locations inside India.
New complementary businesses, from kiosks selling mobile-phone SIM cards to public call centers serving remote villages, are providing legitimate opportunities for economic development and the growth of a new middle class.
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The two men arrested on charges of illegally purchasing cell phone SIM cards, using fake identity papers, will be questioned by police who want to know whether they sold cards used by the Mumbai gunmen, according to Calcutta Deputy Police Commissioner Jawad Shamim.
It has a 3.2-inch capacitive touch screen (one that responds to human fingers), a 3.2-megapixel camera (with video capture), microSD expandable storage (a 2 GB card comes standard, but the phone supports cards up to 32 GB), and the latest version of Android (2.2 "Froyo").
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It holds our plastic money (credit and debit cards and coupons), our cash, sometimes a few coins, business cards, important phone numbers and our personal ID cards.
Publications and prepaid phone and transit cards would continue to be exempt from the price limit.
Even if you can't be there physically, phone calls and cards do help, Alf said.
It stores virtual versions of your existing plastic cards on your phone, along with your coupons, and eventually, loyalty and gift cards.
Klingel is trying to land younger subscribers by stuffing subscription cards in phone books, catalogs and small-town Sunday newspapers.
For Urban Media, if one-quarter of the businesses that use the free broadband also buy add-ons, such as phone service, calling cards and unified messaging, each building would be cash-flow positive in 18 months.
For Urban Media, if a quarter of the businesses that use the free broadband also buy add-ons, such as phone service, calling cards and unified messaging, each building would be cash-flow positive in 18 months.
Retail bank branches may be the oldest legacy of all, but they have not been replaced by ATMs, direct deposit, standing orders for bill payment, travelers checks, credit cards, phone banking, Internet banking or mobile banking.
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Mere individuals as well as governments use multiple cell phone numbers or calling cards from public phones for real communications, while calling between phones they know are monitored to watch in glee as we scramble with security measures.
At that time people narrowly believed charges were made using credit cards, not phone bills.
Murray's credit cards and cell phone have not registered any activity since the night she disappeared, February 9, 2004.
For the first time, players can purchase virtual goods in the games using their mobile phone no credit cards or complex payment systems involved.
Unfortunately the phone doesn't support cards larger than 32GB, but the cards are at least hot-swappable, and that helps to bolster the 16GB of internal storage.
Sex trade workers have taken to using Facebook and Twitter as a 21st Century phone box by posting calling cards on the networks that show them clearly touting for business.
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