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- No Free Lunch, or Ringtone Either: Verizon to Pay $1.5M
That sound you hear isn’t so much a free ringtone as Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) sighing. The nation’s largest wireless provider has agreed to pay $1.5 million in settlement money for third-party charges that appeared on customers’ bills. The charges resulted from ringtone, wallpaper and other downloads that consumers didn’t realize would cost them.Yet another reason to actually read the fine ...
- Billing: Combat Mobile Content Aggregation Aggravation
Several years ago, the telecom industry saw the first wave of headaches related to content billing. Back then, people placing orders over the Web or their phones often encountered recurring or even fraudulent charges they hadn’t expected. That problem has taken on a new form – take the recent lawsuit against mobile publishing firm Cellfish as just one example – ...
- Virgin Mobile USA Offers Mobile Broadband Prepaid
While Verizon starts to phase out its 3G EV-DO network, Sprint continues to make deal with its.Virgin Mobile USA has announced a prepaid 3G Internet service is on the way over the Sprint EV-DO Rev. A network. It will be called Broadband2Go. Subscribers use a modem that plugs into a computer’s USB port. There is an internal antenna and an ...
- Prepaid Hot in Downturn
A new report from comScore shows more and more people are becoming interested in prepaid wireless plans in these tough economic times.comScore measured interest by monitoring Web site visits and search engine queries in regard to six leading prepaid sites. The combined visitation to these sites grew 37 percent versus one year ago to nearly 8 million visitors, representing more ...
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