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How Sandy disrupted phone communications
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Feb 5, 2013
The FCC looks at what can be done to minimize disruptions to phone service during natural disasters.
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A discount for a cell-phone-less meal?
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Aug 16, 2012
One restaurant in Los Angeles tries something new to get patrons to turn off their phones: a 5 percent discount on their meal.
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Are mobile phone taxes a real problem?
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Apr 16, 2012
Congress is mulling over legislation that would freeze the taxes we pay for our cell phone service.
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Government's new plan to end growing cell phone theft
Apr 10, 2012
There’s word today the federal government is moving to render those stolen cell phones a lot less valuable. The plan is to make phone companies keep a registry of specific phones as opposed to phone numbers.
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AT&T's plan to thwart big data users
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Mar 2, 2012
If you're one of the 17 million people who use AT&T for your mobile phone service, there will be no more unlimited data for you, even if that's what you signed up for.
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Facebook coming to non-smartphones in Africa
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Feb 16, 2012
Facebook is teaming up with mobile phone maker Orange to provide its services to cell phones in Africa -- of the non-iPhone, BlackBerry, or Android variety.
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The trouble with Apple's success
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Jan 25, 2012
Apple's record quarterly profits come with a few setbacks for the maker of the iPhone.
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Verizon adds $2 charge to some online payments
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Dec 30, 2011
Verizon is introducing a new fee in January. Anytime a customer pays their bill over the phone or online with their credit card, they'll have to come up with an additional $2.
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Phone service holds up pretty well, actually
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Aug 29, 2011
Alright, I'll eat that serving of crow this morning. On Friday's memo I predicted that cell service would collapse everywhere in the coming...
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A lot of people own cell phones, claims Pew in shocking report
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Aug 15, 2011
83% of Americans own some kind of cell phone....
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