Possession of a mobile or cell phone plus an airtime package does not simply allow you to send a text message to one person.
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Also a problem: incompatible mobile networks and cell phone operating systems.
Auto sales were flat due to continued weak demand, while sales at its solar cell and mobile phone fell.
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Billions have phones and more than 100 million have access to mobile money, encrypted cell-phone chips with stored value.
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"Now mobile phone ownership is perhaps 30% of households and cell phone coverage is widespread, " said Sachs, director of the United Nations Millennium Villages Project, which focuses on improving 14 rural villages across 10 African countries as a model for wider prosperity in the region.
Special offer: Mobile TV is coming to your cell phone if it hasn't already.
Technology even allows some of those clues to go straight to your cell phone or other mobile device.
That's a huge jump from last year, when 25 percent of U.S. cell phone users reported mobile internet use.
After screening dozens of U.S.-traded China stocks against the model, one that stood out was cell phone giant China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) , which I featured in my most recent Forbes.com article. (Click here for that article.) But I also found a couple other smaller China plays that get solid marks from my Buffett-based strategy.
Details like which bank, mobile operator, or even brand of cell phone you're using won't matter, he says.
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Reporting by the Wall Street Journal last summer narrowed the possible recipients of the NSL in question to a small cell phone firm called Credo Mobile.
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They're working with cell-phone providers to bring in mobile towers, and extra bathrooms will also be on site.
He dipped into the cell phone business in 1995 when he won a license in Ireland to set up a mobile phone network, Esat Telecom.
Scientists analyzed calls and texts involving almost 15 million Kenyan mobile phone subscribers, nearly 12, 000 cell towers, and 692 different settlements and correlated that data with a map of malaria cases.
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Google figured out a better way to find information, and place ads, just about killing newspapers (and magazines.) Apple found a better way to use mobile minutes, taking a big bite out of cell phone manufacturers.
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That work determined how close a mobile phone had to be to register on a cell site.
To be told by T-Mobile that even if there is some weird glitch in the satellite phone system instituted by the cruise line, that my problem is with THE OTHER CELL-PHONE COMPANY and not T-Mobile, is the height of arrogance and shoddy treatment of their customers.
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Disney is so enthusiastic about the mobile market that it is getting ready to launch its own cell phone company.
Taobao offered instant messaging and voice mail to mobile phones for buyers and sellers because Chinese users were cell-phone savvy rather than computer savvy.
Touting itself as the industry's "first smart mobile provider, " Zact takes an entirely different tact to cell phone service, offering the consumer total control over voice, text and data plans, even across multiple devices.
The nation spends 15% more on phone services, as a percentage of GDP, than Western Europe as a whole and sports a 110% penetration rate for mobile services (many Italians have one personal and one work cell phone).
Designed from a parent's perspective, VIVOplay delivers all the benefits of a cell phone while minimizing the concerns that keep parents from buying mobile phones for children ages 5-12 such as cyber bullying, sexting and texting charges.
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According to a report published Wednesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, Mobile Access 2010, in the past year 38 percent of U.S. cell phone users accessed the internet from their phones.
Sprint also markets cell phone service through several discount carriers that focus on no-contract mobile plans, such as Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile -- and some of these brands are starting to market 4G phones and service.
You can use that one mobile tool to communicate with whoever you want, as long as you have their cell phone number, and they don't need to be logged in to a site or service at that time to receive your message.
In a nutshell, he recommends purchasing a simple prepaid cell phone plan from Straight Talk or a regular monthly plan from T-Mobile.
This time I called t-Mobile, told them about these new charges, and that I had not made any cell phone calls onboard my ship.
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The expansion of banking through cell phones is highly strategic: 85% of Haitians already have access to a mobile phone.
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Often this meant learning to exploit the latest laptop, cell phone, fax, Internet and other computer and communications technologies that make possible the mobile economy.
He spent euro33 billion acquiring VoiceStream, the sixth-largest of America's big cell-phone operators, and a further euro8 billion on 3G (third generation) mobile-phone licences from European governments.
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