‘Mobiles’

AT&T offering iPhones without two-year contract

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

AT&T has confirmed a report that it will offer iPhones without a two-year contract starting next week.

The Associated Press quoted an AT&T representative Thursday confirming plans to sell no-contract iPhones for $599 or $699 starting next Thursday, as first reported Wednesday by the Boy Genius Report. There’s a catch, however; those phones will still be locked to AT&T’s network.

A regular AT&T iPhone account will be required to operate the phone, although theoretically you could activate the phone one day, cancel your account the next, and only be out activation fees and a month’s worth of service, rather than two years worth of service. But then you’d be reduced to using your expensive iPhone over just Wi-Fi networks unless you’re willing to unlock it for other networks.

An Apple representative did not immediately return a call seeking comment on whether a similar offer would be in place at Apple’s retail stores, which the AP was also unable to confirm.

Make Cheapest International Calls

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

It is good scenario now, where international calling rates have come down a lot, which is directly or indirectly facilitating people to make cheap international calls. But still there are many people who are not aware of such calling rates. In the telecommunication market, there are various types of international calling plans and,therefore, people should go for those plans, which lead them towards the activity of making cheap international calls at the cheapest rates.

Nowadays, there are many telecommunication companies which are giving excellent offers on calling plans. If a user uses such an offer at the first launch then he can save lots of money. Such offers can really lessen the burden of huge phone bills. Although, many of these companies have reduced their international calling rates, yet the users say that these rates are still not favourable for them. They wish for further reductions and hope for a ’speedy’ arrival of favourable international call plans along with their variant in the form of unlimited calling plans.

In the present world, there is no any scarcity of mobile phones and land line telephones and above all, these are also quite affordable purchases. But after one such mobile phone or a land line phone has been bought then the need to pay bills to the network service provider on a monthly basis, comes into the picture. These days people often like to change their talktime plans or call plans from companies to companies, which are dealing in the business of providing telecommunication services to the public. There are many players in the telecommunication companies in the market and so there is a tough competition, which is clearly visible. This competition is directly or indirectly benefiting the users as they are the people who decide, which one, among the operating unlimited calling plans, will they go for.

Globalisation is busy in his rapid endeavour of changing our world into a small village (A feature which is primarily due to the emergence of global telecommunication companies). Today people are making international calls to various countries and they are extending the ‘world human network’ to its farthest horizons. The number of international calls made by individuals would be less in comparison to the number of the calls, which are made by users who work in various multinational companies. These global companies are the most important clients of telecommunication companies. These multinational companies make use of various corporate international calling plans. Such plans are quite affordable as they are useful.

For some years in order to make international calls, users had to choose the post-paid connections only. The monthly rental fees for the service provider had to be given even if the number of calls being made during the whole month had not been more that twice. This hassle is no longer applicable now with the users having many other options other than these post-paid connections. Now they can make use of infinite international pre-paid cards, which they can use according to the number of calls they want to make. Apart from pre-paid cards, there are also other wonderful options in the form of some of the cheapest calling plans, which have been greatly useful to ‘international call users’.

The World Wide Web is also contributing much in this regard. There are many websites which let people make international calls and that too at the cheapest rates. On such websites a user needs to update his mobile number and then he can make an international call to another user who has also updated his number on the same website. Other than using these international call plans, users can also send messages to various mobile users without the need to pay anything. The question arises that whether these plans are exciting or not. The answer lies in the fact that these plans are extremely exciting with lots of individuals making international calls at the cheapest rates as well as sending messages.