Indeed, people worried about potentially cheating spouses may find praying together a better safeguard against adultery than checking mobile-phone bills and scrutinising credit-card receipts and one that builds trust, rather than destroying it.
The Conservatives said they also forced the government to backtrack on the plans to levy a charge on landline phone bills - due to come into force in October - to pay for the universal roll-out of broadband.
It offered to nail down the Middle East problem and scour Otari's phone bills for cost-cutting changes that could save up to 30%.
Another is that the IRS is using this year's income tax filings to refund billions in long-distance phone taxes, which it belatedly conceded it had wrongly imposed on cellphone bills and certain flat-rate long-distance charges.
Horror stories abound of travelers stranded with malfunctioning phone cards or racking up thousand-dollar cellphone bills for international roaming charges.
But some people say the new devices create confusion because add-on services make their wireless phone bills bigger and more complex.
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Pay your bills with a cell-phone scan, or order a birthday gift off your daughter's wish list, which she made by scanning items at the mall.
Within a year Sulger expects customers to be using SmartPay to buy online and wireless value-added services, in addition to phone and utility bills.
Laws and policies that have stopped working are phased out more quickly than they are in the U.S. For example, we retained the 1898 Spanish-American War tax as part of our phone bills until earlier this year.
Increasingly, paychecks are electronically deposited, and the money for the bills they pay--mortgages, utilities, cable and phone--are paid electronically as well.
"Carriers have a very narrow band around the rate plan, and once you get outside that band they make a lot of money, " says the chief executive of Traq-wireless , an Austin, Tex. firm that analyzes corporate cell phone bills for a fee.
Then, almost no-one had e-mail, or the ability to pay bills or make transactions over the phone or online.
Where other archivists were reverently accumulating the papers of Lincoln or Dickens, he wanted Myrna Loy's dry-cleaning bills, Freddie Ayer's cheque stubs and Basil Rathbone's phone bills, if he could get them.
Mr Joyce said during police investigations itemised phone bills showed a record of conversations between Mr Curtis, Mr Holmes and Mr Grey's ex-partner.
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Prominent examples include MoneyBox Africa and M-PESA, mobile-phone based money transfer services that allow customers to deposit and withdraw money, transfer money to others, pay bills and make purchases.
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