Tiny La. Community Gets Telephone Service
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There's a fish-fry Monday in this hamlet of 15 households to celebrate big news: phone service. Gov. Kathleen Blanco plans to call 83-year-old Mink resident Alma Louise Bolton from Baton Rouge to mark the occasion, which finally connects one of the nation's last rural areas without access to regular phone service.
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A small South Carolina company says it has a cure for the modern plague of budget-busting cell-phone charges racked up by teenagers: a gadget for text-messaging that isn't a cell phone.
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By Chris Metinko, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 1--As the country's senior population grows by the day, local services and agencies are dealing with an influx of calls from those now caring for seniors who can no longer care for themselves.
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The phone call came Friday from Gonaives, Haiti, where Imelda Figaro of Union has family. The call -- on a cell phone -- lasted only a minute, Figaro said, but it was enough to let her
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One small town provides a snapshot of an electorate riven by tribal infighting
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Company pursuing different wholesale access rates to its local phone network for Net phone providers.
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Blog: The line has stretched around a second corner as San Franciscans await their iPhones.
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More than 300 communities consider launching local high-speed Internet service.
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At a local neighborhood grocery store, customers may soon be able to pay for their purchases with a quick wave of their cellphone, doing away with the need for wallets, loyalty cards and even cashiers.
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Not quite the usual conference call.
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You may have seen ads for services offering cheap &#39;&#39;Internet phone calls,&#39;&#39; or heard someone bragging about how little they pay for long distance because they have an Internet phone, and wondered what they were talking about.
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Phone service that's available wherever there's a Net connection is approaching 2 million users.
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Telecommunications giant tries to attract consumers who make few long-distance calls with a $20-per-month local plan.
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Performance venues there can now install signal-jamming equipment to deal with rude mobile-phone users.
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New mobile devices allow users to make free or low-cost phone calls over the Internet using nearby wireless access points, which range from cafes to private homes.
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VoIP service will be available using traditional handsets.
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Rather than being annoying interrupters, ringing phones are being embraced by Chicago's Sinfonietta