Tool suggest best plans based on usage

Submitting your personal past cellphone bill data is the hook of a Toronto-based project called Aria, which is still in development. Aria promises to identify errors and suggest best plans based on usage. Data management security experts Robert Burnes and partner Tim Donnelly have used software to analyze business cellphone plans in the past, but want to make their tool available to the everyday consumer for $1/mont . “We’ve done that in the past where we look at a business’ cellphone invoice for...

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GIV Mobile is the first no-contract mobile service dedicated to giving 8% of monthly wireless plan to charity.

It's pretty safe to assume that your cellphone bill is bigger than you'd like it to be. With the help of a new service provider called GIV Mobile, you can slice a little chunk off every month, but it'll go to charity instead of your pocket. GIV Mobile is a MVNO operating on T-Mobile's 4G network, and offers a pair of non-contract plans: $40 unlimited everything with 250MB of data at 4G speeds, or $50 unlimited everything with 2 GB of data at 4G speeds. That's a pretty standard offering...

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