His voice was confident and rather flat, with a gravelly distinction.

NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

Through its affordable, flat-rate service plans, Cricket offers customers a choice of unlimited voice, text, data and mobile Web services.

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But it is attacking with a radical business model: inexpensive flat-rate wireless data for any device (it plans to add voice service soon).

ECONOMIST: Face value