The basic service is free, but users who want the bells and whistles pay a fee.
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The idea of freemium is that the basic service is free, but the fancier version costs money.
Bharti, which offers cellular service in Delhi and basic service in Madhya Pradesh, hopes to link 27 cities.
Map is a basic service that is becoming integral to everyday life.
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The basic service is free, but comes at the price of having to obtain yet one more phone number (to rule them all).
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Instead of paying by the month as you do with most VOIP services, Ooma charges for its adapters and gives away the basic service.
Plenty of people who should know better think selling "freemium" services (the combination of free, basic service and premium, paid service) is a business model.
The basic service costs 30 rupees a month, and a premium service which provides detailed local crop prices in ten states is available at twice that price.
The most basic service takes advantage of Nest's existing technology, which features an Auto-Away process that learns the users' schedules and adjusts temperatures when no one is home.
Correlation isn't causation, of course, but Google Fiber's basic service could make it possible for families in low-income neighborhoods to to afford broadband service for the first time.
Millions of cable customers have only the most basic service, sometimes with boxes that receive only traditional analog signals, which take up far more bandwidth than digital signals.
Once that runs out however, they can opt for basic service where cloud-stored DVR recordings are limited to 5 hours of monthly playback on the box itself and expire after 90 days.
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In the meantime, though, it would be better for Globe to offer a decent basic service to its present subscribers -- which means enabling them to make and receive calls and messages.
In 1995 Disney dropped the pay-channel approach to turn the outlet into a basic cable service.
Lifeline provides discounts on basic monthly service at a primary residence for qualified telephone customers.
Other than the name change and a website redesign, one other new tack is a free "Basic" service package.
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And the compact delivered on universality: By the early 1980s, over 90 percent of American households had basic telephone service.
As I reported months ago, there is a law in place to help low-income customers have access to basic telephone service.
Two smaller markets are for people living in relatively unpopulated corners of the globe who need a basic mobile service or semi-fixed pay-phones.
Since the basic Skype service doesn't cost a dime, it threatens to popularize the idea of free calling, and make it difficult for phone companies to continue to charge today's high rates.
In the plan, HIFRS said water used in fire fighting had been excluded because it was a basic requirement for service delivery.
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About five years ago, Rackspace introduced a higher level of service, Intensive Proactive Managed Support, with more outsourced IT functionality an alternative to its basic Managed Online Demand hosting service.
According to its website, Wavii claims that the basic idea behind its service is to summarise everything that users care about into a customised news feed on the lines of a Facebook wall.
Heins said if some customers use a more basic selection of the network service, they may not be required to pay.
Moreover, as Britain's recently deregulated electricity, gas and telecoms companies have discovered, brand recognition or loyalty seems to be a dream in the utilities business: having been assured of a basic level and quality of service, most consumers buy on price alone, and switch allegiances frequently.
The classes have a basic level and are focused on the elementary and fundamental notions for the touristic service, stimulating the learning of a basic vocabulary for a better communication with the foreign visitor.
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Wireless has begun to replace it as some people drop their landline service: but currently it is a basic assumption that all can, even if not will, have a landline telephone service.
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