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...cell-phone front, Uphonia, a new prepaid mobile service, will let users call more than 100 countries for a fixed 20¢ a minute. You can get better rates to many countries with special calling cards, but that price includes the phone. The rate also applies to calls made to U.S. numbers; compared with other domestic prepay plans, 20¢ a minute is about average. One catch: Uphonia phones can call just about anywhere in the world, but you can't use them outside the U.S. --By Wilson Rothman
...dining hall closing time and half of students’ bedttime. It is important that the UC and HUDS consider these numbers. Extending hours to 8:30 p.m. will allow for more flexibility and is the only fair way to ensure that students get maximal use out of their prepaid board plans. Other proposed solutions, which include giving students more BoardPlus money to use at campus eateries, expanding dining at Loker Commons, and extending hours at a few dining halls, are insufficient given the clear student demand...
Americans spent more than $1 trillion on Visa credit, debit and prepaid cards in 2004, a 19% jump over the year before. Visa USA CEO Carl Pascarella sat down with TIME's Barbara Kiviat to talk about the continued march to plastic...
PASCARELLA: Everyday expense is growing markedly. That's the grocery store, the movie theater, gas stations. Quick-service restaurants--a $142 billion business, of which the card industry has got about 9%--is growing at 67% a year [for Visa]. We've had significant growth in prepaid cards, and the payroll card is very important...
...Intuit, owner of the TurboTax software program, to launch TTrefund.com a website geared toward tax filers ages 18 to 24. The TurboTax system guides young e-filers through the intimidating tax terrain and lets them deposit any refund directly into a checking account or Rush Card, a Simmons-branded prepaid Visa debit card designed for urbanites underserved by traditional banks. In order to draw young people to the site, TTrefund.com offers a $10 discount on the Rush Card's $19.95 activation fee, plus deals on personal computers, digital cameras and wireless phones from Best Buy. Spring breakers can even save...