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New phone carrier introduces ‘pay as you use’ plan
What if you could pay for just the minutes, text messages and data you use? And, what if you were credited back in cash any minutes, text messages and data you didn’t use? That’s what the new carrier Zact is promising when it goes live early next month.
You set a monthly budget for your cellphone service and then allocate dollars to talk minutes, text messages and data. You can play around with creating your own plan with Zact’s Saving Calculator. Don’t text? You can choose zero text messages—or zero for data or talk minutes for that matter. And if you just need data for an app or two, there’s no need to buy a bucket of data.
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New phone carrier introduces ‘pay as you use’ plan
What if you could pay for just the minutes, text messages and data you use? And, what if you were credited back in cash any minutes, text messages and data you didn’t use? That’s what the new carrier Zact is promising when it goes live early next month.
You set a monthly budget for your cellphone service and then allocate dollars to talk minutes, text messages and data. You can play around with creating your own plan with Zact’s Saving Calculator. Don’t text? You can choose zero text messages—or zero for data or talk minutes for that matter. And if you just need data for an app or two, there’s no need to buy a bucket of data.
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Review: Google music plan solid, serendipitous
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Google’s new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, and a myriad of playlists curated along different genres provides a big playground for music lovers.
The All Access service represents Google’s attempt to grab a bigger piece of the digital music market as more people stream songs over mobile phones. Such services are also meant to further wed smartphone users to Google’s Android operating system, where the search leader makes money from advertising and transactions on its digital content store, Google Play.
For a monthly fee, All Access lets you listen to as much
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