After acquiring Gate5 last year, Nokia decided that adding navigation capabilities was "a natural move, " and its forthcoming Smart2Go system will offer up free mapping and routing services and a fee-based turn-by-turn option if you've just got to have that robotic helper bossing you around (or can't take your eyes off the road).

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Such services, which make possible very cheap (or even free) calls by routing part or all of each call over the internet, have forced traditional telecoms firms to cut their prices.

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You could avoid routing the gas through Iran, and free Central Asian republics from having to ship through Russian pipelines.

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