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Ojbi Besieged CLECs continue to flounder
Other carriers have had trouble counting packets; best to know how much data you really use If you or your company use Verizon Wireless as a primary mobile carrier, yoursquo;re going to want to remind people to type DATA into their phones every once in a while. Last Thursday Verizon Wireless dropped its $30/month unlimited data plan that became its com stanley cup pulsory standard plan for smartphones in January, just before it introduced its version of the iPhone. The $30 plan was a big stanley termo improvement over the skimpy $15-for-150MB/month version it ended at the same time. [4G mobile broadband and you: Coverage, cost, and, yes, caveats and Flops and vapor: 10 ways Microsoft tried and failed to rule mobile]The new plan gives you 2GB/month for $30, which Verizon is trying to sweeten by offering to text you with warnings of when yoursquo;re getting close to your limit, and providing ways to calculate ahead of time how much wireless data yoursquo;ll use, and check on the fly how much of your quota yoursquo;ve eaten. VZW also offers 5GB/month for $50 and 10GB for $80. Texting DATA to VZW will give you an instant update, as will going to MyVerizonWireless and looking at your account info. The data usage calculator Verizon Wireless posted is a little more complete than yoursquo;d think. It does list stanley botella networking tasks so generically itrsquo impossible to accurately estimate your costs, which is what yoursquo;d expect. The idiot-friendly interface features bright green sliders customer can Uisj Love bug author charged, may face stiff jail term
The cell phone has revolutioniz polene fr ed the way Kenyarsquo pastoral communities work and conduct business, according to Joseph ole Kishau, an elder in the Maasai community.Using the cell phone, communities can make calls to warn adjacent villagers of cattle thieves and rustlers, which has made it hard for the attackers, Kishau said.Cattle rustling is a cultural tradition among the pastoralist communities where one community steals cattle from another. Today, however, catt polene sac le rustling involves guns and affects communities in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia. With technology, communities are able to prepare and guard their homes against the thieves, which reduces vulnerability. Pastoral communities occupy vast areas, but now that most people have mobile phones, communication between herders has become easy, said Molu Kulu, an elder from the Gabbra community in Northern Kenya.The mobile has made us equal, Kulu said. It is not like the landline, which was only available in some homes, or the phone booth, which was available in trading centers. Now everyone can communicate.Mobile phones h stanley usa ave also changed the way these communities conduct business: Herders call Nairobi to find out the market rates for their livestock, and they can receive daily prices via SMS Short Message Service , enabling them to demand better rates from livestock buyers. The M-PESA electronic money transfer service, however, is what amuses Kishau the most: I can send money t |
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