Some operators including Bharti recently increased their telephone-call charges for the first time in several years and cut down discounts to offset rising costs.
Your credit card charges, telephone calls and where you keep your underwear could all be scrutinized and might become a matter of public record.
For users of the free Internet services that are proliferating across Europe, the catch comes in the telephone bill, as charges for making calls to connect to these services.
The Federal Communications Commission defines cramming as the practice of placing unauthorized, misleading or deceptive charges on your telephone bill.
Crammers take full advantage of lengthy and confusing telephone bills to hide deceptive charges and hope no one pays attention long enough to notice.
However the report said that increased competition had brought down the cost of fixed line telephone costs while lower servicing charges and tyre costs had reduced the cost of car upkeep.
NTT's network altogether, SpeedNet will avoid having to pay the dominant carrier's interconnection charges, which independent telephone companies reckon amount to a third of their total operating costs.
McCabe released a study at the FTC workshop showing that of the 802 consumers who returned surveys in Vermont, 60 percent reported that the third-party charges on their mobile telephone bills were unauthorized.
Slim rejects charges that he owns a telephone monopoly.
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"The plan is effectively a wage cut, only it takes longer, " charges Ip Kwok-fun, chairman of the Hongkong Telephone Staff Association.
Earlier, Scotland Yard said its Operation Weeting investigation had "identified a further suspected conspiracy to intercept telephone voicemails", separate from its earlier inquiry which had seen charges laid.
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The US attorney's office released a 76-page FBI affidavit detailing the charges against Mr Blagojevich, which included transcripts of his telephone conversations intercepted by court-authorised wiretaps over several weeks.
In pressing their charges, the Americans have relied heavily on evidence from intercepted telephone and e-mail conversations.
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The e-rate offers a reduction on the price of monthly Internet access charges, wiring up classrooms, any special costs attaching to distance learning and basic telephone services.
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In an AP telephone poll, 49 percent of New Yorkers said that even if Spitzer resigns, he should face criminal charges.
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