According to a study by PriceMetrix, an aggregator of brokerage fee data, the average fee paid on brokerage accounts declined 0.15% between 2007 and 2010.
Application fee data refer to those fees charged to students applying for admission in fall 2011.
Buyers are mostly social-media monitoring companies, which analyse the data for a fee.
Users who go over their monthly data allotment will pay an additional fee based on their existing data plan.
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Another company that Sakhrani says could be significantly impacted by the fee change is Alliance Data Systems.
According to Eurekahedge, a data provider, the average performance fee for funds of funds was 6.5% in 2009, down from 10% in 2007.
The Justice Committee found that a proposed new EU regulation would remove the information commissioner's funding for data protection work through the notification fee payable to him by all those who process personal information.
Others scramble data that is only unscrambled when a fee is paid.
The Japanese case dates back to 2011 when Samsung filed a claim that Apple had use one of its data transmission techniques without paying a licence fee.
Instead, they are charged an additional fee for every additional chunk of data that they use.
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After entering into a merger agreement with Drobo yesterday, the company's just announced Transporter v2.0 -- the latest software for its cloud-aware NAS. To jog your memory, Transporter is a device that lets you share data online, Dropbox-style, without a subscription fee.
For a fee, some wallet providers will let retailers access customer data, such as how many times a particular shopper has purchased an item or what the best-selling item of the week was.
As legal departments institute increasingly creative alternative fee arrangements to predict and control costs, they need objective data in order to negotiate rates.
Based in San Francisco, closely held Strava is also used by runners, who can win a CR course record for posting the fastest time on a particular segment. (About half of Strava runners are women.) The site charges a fee for premium services such as analysis of heart-rate data.
Ask them if they provide a service to burn that data to a DVD or write it to a hard drive and mail it for a fee.
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.
But the data suggest the cost of all of this has been very high, contributing to the tuition fee explosion at many schools.
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Given the ease with which data regarding fees can be compiled, we began to suspect the lack of in-depth fee information might be due, in part, to conflicts of interest in the pension consulting industry.
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Until now, the mobile hotspot market has given users essentially two basic payment plans, both of which are borrowed from the phone market: You can prepay for some fixed amount of data and re-up when you run out, or you can plop down a monthly fee for a capped per-month allocation of bits.
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Companies like CyberSource, First Data and PayPal (now owned by eBay) are happy to process credit card transactions for a fee.
In fact, trailing data suggests that active Fixed Income Managers have provided a better value proposition (measured by alpha generated relative to fee paid) than Large Cap Equity managers.
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In response, Verizon Wireless stated that the additional fee reflected the fact that customers who tether laptops or other devices have the capability to use more data capacity than others.
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What's most interesting to us is that the carriers are appearing to conflate bandwidth-heavy services like Facebook and YouTube with devices that customers use to access those services -- does it really make any sense to charge Apple or Google a fee for making good phones that encourage more network use, on top of charging users for tiered data?
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