Several countries offer cash for phones through a scratchoff card like those used to recharge pay-as-you-go phone plans.
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In other places such as Japan, where people pay per-minute phone rates for local calls, consumers are eager to eliminate online access fees.
You may recall Airfone, the air-to-ground pay phone service that debuted on commercial flights in the 1980s.
Increasingly, paychecks are electronically deposited, and the money for the bills they pay--mortgages, utilities, cable and phone--are paid electronically as well.
There should also be a much wider range of packages on offer including pay-TV, broadband and phone services through the likes of BT Vision.
Japanese users pay by the packet for the data they use on DoCoMo's networks, but Americans, accustomed to flat-fee Net and phone deals, may balk at pay-per-use pricing that can result in month-end sticker shock.
Unless you're grabbing a sketchy pay-by-the-minute phone, you'd better plan on blowing an entire afternoon.
Pay your bills with a cell-phone scan, or order a birthday gift off your daughter's wish list, which she made by scanning items at the mall.
Users pay call and data charges for phone-to-phone conversations and translation data for screen text and voice readouts.
The car is self-operating, so use the wall-mounted phone to ring the mountain station before boarding, then pay the 13 Swiss franc round-trip fare as you exit.
Similar to pre-paid phone service, customers pay up front before they receive the service.
Cyclists will be able to pay using their mobile phone or cash card - receiving the first 30 minutes free.
As Brazil's largest pay-TV provider and a big hitter in phone services and Internet access, NETC is a play on Brazil's growing middle class.
Those phone companies have encroached on cable's turf by entering the pay-TV business and are positioning themselves to offer a "quadruple play" of services that includes landline phone, high-speed Web access, cellphone, and video.
SmartPay links users' bank accounts to their mobile-phone numbers, enabling them to pay via short messaging services (SMS, or text messaging).
That being said, this is a case where you get what you pay for -- the C79 feels like a cheap phone through and through.
Then came premium networks, and tiers of service, and pay-per-view, and internet access... and today, cable operators are selling everything from phone service to interactive gaming.
He cites cellular phone companies offering downloads as a part of pay-monthly packages.
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You had to unfold a map and find your way -- unless you were lucky enough to find a pay phone in a safe area and had two dimes.
What is perhaps less obvious is that not only do you commit to that 2-year contract, but you also pay for the subsidized phone every month through your monthly fee.
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Georgie is available to download now on Google Play, but you'll still need to give the (UK-based) phone number a call to provision and pay for the service.
Mobile-phone companies are starting to get African supporters to pay to get football-related texts, and in some countries fans may soon be able to watch their team on their telephones.
Then, almost no-one had e-mail, or the ability to pay bills or make transactions over the phone or online.
The Conservatives said they also forced the government to backtrack on the plans to levy a charge on landline phone bills - due to come into force in October - to pay for the universal roll-out of broadband.
"What's unique about the pay phone network in New York is that the reliability of service is overwhelming -- and not just in hurricanes, " said Izzo, citing the blackout of 2003 and the chaos of Sept. 11, 2001.
Many users do not want to pay for both a phone contract and a tablet data contract and thus opt for Wi-Fi-only tablets.
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These plans, which are readily available, net you a lower monthly tariff in exchange for an omitted device subsidy -- in other words, bring your own phone, and you'll pay less for service.
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This prompted the Kindle team to devise a new business model, striking deals with mobile-phone operators to allow Kindle users to download e-books without having to pay network fees.
Russia's mobile-phone market has a long way to go before it becomes normal: subscribers still pay up to 50 cents a minute for incoming calls.
Mobile-phone companies could become the credit companies of the future by offering customers the ability to pay for goods on the Internet while putting the charge on the customers' phone bills.
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