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  2. History of mobile phones - Wikipedia

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    History of mobile phones. A man talks on his mobile phone while standing near a conventional telephone box, which stands empty. Enabling technology for mobile phones was first developed in the 1940s but it was not until the mid-1980s that they became widely available. By 2011, it was estimated in Britain that more calls were made using mobile ...

  3. History of prepaid mobile phones - Wikipedia

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    The history of the prepaid mobile phones began in the 1990s when mobile phone operators sought to expand their market reach. Up until this point, mobile phone services were exclusively offered on a postpaid basis (contract-based), which excluded individuals with poor credit ratings and minors under the age of 18 (the typical age of contractual ...

  4. Ting Mobile - Wikipedia

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    Ting Mobile is an American mobile virtual network operator owned by Dish Wireless. Originally established in February 2012 by Tucows, Ting provides cellular service in the United States using the T-Mobile and Verizon networks. The service is sold off-contract with billing that adjusts the cost of service based on actual customer usage (usage ...

  5. Prepaid mobile phone - Wikipedia

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    Prepaid mobile phone. A prepaid mobile device, also known as a pay-as-you-go ( PAYG ), pay-as-you-talk, pay and go, go-phone, prepay or burner phone, is a mobile device such as a phone for which credit is purchased in advance of service use. The purchased credit is used to pay for telecommunications services at the point the service is accessed ...

  6. SIM lock - Wikipedia

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    A SIM lock, simlock, network lock, carrier lock or ( master) subsidy lock is a technical restriction built into GSM and CDMA [1] mobile phones by mobile phone manufacturers for use by service providers to restrict the use of these phones to specific countries and/or networks. This is in contrast to a phone (retrospectively called SIM-free or ...

  7. Telephone numbers in Australia - Wikipedia

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    A call to an 1800 is free when dialled from a landline, and mobile phones since 2014. It depends on the individual mobile plan as how 13 and 1300 numbers are charged: all plans no longer charge for 1800 but 13 and 1300 may still be charged at a high rate, or outside included calls. These numbers "forward" to a geographic or mobile number.

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