The company had an average increase of 16.4 percent in basic phone rates, which went into effect earlier this year.

But you'll need more than the basic phone to play music, no matter which wireless carrier you use.

The basic phone functions all work properly and don't get in the way.

This means that manufacturers can build basic phones at lower costs.

Above all, your readers should not be led to believe that the basic phone system is privacy pure.

However, people who are very poor have very basic phones.

If approved, it would be the first increase in the basic phone rate in 12 years.

Mind you I've only got a basic phone so maybe I'm jealous.

The bottom-line people said anything beyond basic phone service was a frivolity.

In addition to basic phone functions, the Nokia 5210 comes with mobile games as well.

Under Federal law, local phone companies must provide basic phone service to all customers at "just and reasonable" prices.

Over the past two decades, it has helped tens of million of Americans afford basic phone service.

The Commission had to make a decision on whether both of these types of computers should be regulated as a basic phone service.

The phone companies are diversifying into competitive industries outside of basic phone service.

Earlier, Bell Atlantic had frozen rates for basic phone service; they are now some of the lowest in the country.

The Huawei U1250 is a simple basic phones with some multimedia features.

We're not talking about Internet access, we're talking about basic phone service.

It may be a basic phone camera, but the Sync had the truest color rendition in test photos.

A basic phone, after all, will never rack up charges for Web surfing, music, photos, games, ringer sounds and so on.

What they got was a monopoly - at least until 1996, when the Government will allow competitors - and an unfilled demand for basic phone service.

Basic phones are dirt cheap or free.

Mr. Brannan said that in the future, only the most basic phones would run on operating systems developed by the phone makers.

Telephone companies sometimes require high-risk-account customers, or those requiring basic phone service for security and health reasons, to accept toll denial.

Telecommunications:All the basic phone and cellphone service provider companies have their network in Bhinmal.

BSNL is the only operator for the basic phone and broadband facility.