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Money-Saving Keystrokes

Book Summary   by:sreenuchowdary     Original Author: Sreenivas
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I’ve been spending three days of each week shooting my new TVseries, “It’s All Geek to Me,” which will be airing on two of thefarm-team Discovery channels starting in February. (It’s slated forDiscovery HD and Discovery Times, which may have a new name by the timethe show airs.) One episode is all about cellphones, and how to fight back when you’re feeling overwhelmed and bilked by the carriers.We dug up the following delicious money-saving keystrokes for each of the four big carriers.First: the keystroke that interrupts a voicemail message. It doesn’tjust cut short the “Hi, this is Casey, I’m not here right now”message–it also eliminates the TWELVE-SECOND digital lady who says, inan effort to run up your bill: “When you’re finished recording, you mayhang up, or press 1 for more options” (and so on). Every time you usethis keystroke, you’re saving yourself money.Verizon or Cingular: press *Sprint: press 1T-Mobile: press #(Of course, you have to know which carrier your friend uses, so you know which keystroke to use!)Second: the keystroke that reveals how many of your allotted anytimeminutes you’ve used up so far this month, so you won’t inadvertently goover the limit and rack up insane bills. Three of the carriers usevariations of the dialed-out word MIN (short for minutes, get it?), butthere are subtle variations in the preceding and following keystroke:Verizon: dial #646T-Mobile: dial #646#Cingular: dial *646#Sprint: *4I swear–if I had a nickel for every penny I’ve saved my readers…
Published: October 28, 2006   
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