Verizon’s new prepaid cellphone plans let you buy rollover data
Article from Engadget:
If you don’t like commitment, a prepaid phone plan can be appealing — but not if you have to predict your data needs well in advance. Verizon may offer a lot more flexibility with its new Allset plans, though. While there’s only one base $ 45 per month plan for smartphones with unlimited calling, unlimited messages and 500MB of data, customers can tack on “bridge data” that rolls any unused megabytes over to the next month. If you pay $ 10 for 1GB of data or $ 20 for 3GB, you can hold on to any leftover capacity for up to 90 days — a big help if you know you’ll need some headroom during that summer vacation. There’s a $ 5 pack if you only need 500MB of data for 30 days, and basic feature phone users can buy the same bridge packs. Basic feature phone owners can also use Allset, although their $ 35 base rate c…………………continues on Engadget
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Missouri 911 Cell Phone Tax Heads to Senate
Article from OzarksFirst.com:
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The free ride for cell phone users and 9-1-1 services may soon be over.
Since the rise in the use of cell phones, 911 centers across the country have been faced with handling more calls with less money coming in.
Missouri is the last state in the nation to be without a tax or fee on cellular phones, but a bill that passed the Missouri House may change that.
More than a dozen Missouri counties still don’t even have 911 services. All of the counties still rely on fees that apply only to landlines when the vast majority of calls come from cell phones.
The vast majority of calls that come into this 911 center are on cellular phones, many times there are multiple calls for the same incident
“Just here in Greene County in the last ten years we’ve seen an increase of 40 percent of our 911 calls were from a wireless device to now 79 percent of all of our calls that come in,” says Zim Schwartze, director of Springfield-Greene County 911.
But, landlines still shoulder the fees for 911 services.
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