But premium services like custom wallpaper, decorative themes and online games are also taking off.
The latter offers free contact management features, but Oracle plans to add premium services for a monthly fee.
It also plans to offer premium services, such as the printing of photobooks documenting the progress of a relationship.
More than 200 million households in China have cable-television access, according to analysts, but relatively few subscribe to premium services.
That article says the complications are getting broadcasters and entertainment producers fully on board and enticing consumers to pay for premium services.
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Savkar says he also plans to launch some premium services next year, where students pay for additional offerings like online tutoring and career placement.
Following its initial 2008 release, the app was revised to incorporate ads (location-based as well as regular display ads and sponsored listings) and premium services.
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The site is free to use but will soon charge a fee for premium services, such as uploading video or a book of shared photos and memories.
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As we had heard, though, FreedomPop is hoping to recoup the costs of that free data by selling premium services, with three to start and more coming later.
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Google wouldn't pay Verizon or other Internet service providers to offer such premium services for Google's products, including its YouTube video service.
Ovi will be offered alongside their own services, and operators will take a cut of the revenues which Nokia hopes to make from advertising, e-commerce and subscriptions to premium services.
These premium services are more profitable than traditional programming.
The more premium services it can attach to that bucket, and the more convenient ways it can give you to fill it, the higher a monthly fee you will (eventually) be comfortable with.
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"Devices supporting the DLNA premium content guidelines can access premium services using XG1 set-top boxes with the AnyRoom DVR service that Comcast has begun deploying, " said Tony Werner, EVP and CTO, Comcast Cable.
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Capgemini, a consultancy, has found that most mobile-phone operators vastly overestimate the importance that customers place on premium services, while equally vastly underestimating the importance of simplicity, both in handsets and in pricing plans.
But you are also getting a call option on the possibility that Viacom will sell a lot of premium services to its cable subscribers, using fiber-optic cable it has already laid in the ground.
Faced with higher labor costs and competition, it is likely that they will have to start charging for premium services now, but many Chinese will feel confident enough with the system to go along with the fees.
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Charles Wang is trying to get subscribers addicted to his free text-messaging service, PingCo, so that he can start signing them up for premium services such as backing up address books, selling astrological charts and providing weather updates.
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Mr. Nguyen said the company might eventually sell premium services to local businesses like restaurants, which might be able to highlight photos of popular dishes or daily specials, or learn more about which Color-using customers come to the restaurant most often.
Both are looking at premium services and advertising to bring in the real money, and the long-term plan starts to sound more like Yahoo or AOL -- start out with one service and see what else you can sell on top of it.
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The company says it hasn't yet turned a profit, CEO Eric Liu said, but he hopes police departments that currently get its service for free will later sign up for paid premium services and upgrades, such as a secured anonymous tip service through the Web.
The company is betting that among the multitudes of sharers, there will be a significant portion that will pay for support and other premium services, such as advanced versioning, snapshots to outside mechanisms such as Iron Mountain, white labeling by resellers and enterprise customers, and so on.
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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.
It went on: "If this extra income does not rise at least at the same rate as student and staff numbers then it will be difficult to maintain the premium services that the university and colleges provide (and which are essential to preserve the character of Cambridge)".
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Other measures announced were a systematic monitoring of premium phone services and the publication of clear rules on competitions.
The quantity of content is further expanded through premium content services available through the Smart TV function.
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The availability of premium VOD services such as Hulu Plus, Pandora, Netflix and YouTube is on the rise.
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This includes mobile payment, enterprise productivity and mobile banking applications, as well as online commerce and premium content services.
The addition of these new premium content services addresses an increased customer demand for a further expanded offering of best-in-class entertainment.
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