(The next day, a spokeswoman offered T-Mobile's $4.99-a-month 4.99-a-month 4.99-a-montham as an equivalent service, but it doesn't cover data use and comes with a disclaimer that it "is not intended to prevent overages").
In fact, OnStar has a 70% cost advantage over an equivalent service that requires installation after the car is purchased.
His superiors, charged with writing an annual appraisal of Lt Bush in May 1973, explained that he "has not been observed at this unit during the period of report" because he was doing equivalent service in Alabama.
"I am doing a service," he said.
So in giving Scorsese an Oscar for a movie that's not one of his greatest, the Academy did a public service and turned itself into the indirect equivalent of a grant-giving foundation.
Do a service to your community!
That is a similar sum as the US charges for its equivalent service and Labour said tourism experts did not anticipate it would have any impact on the numbers choosing to travel to Britain.
It would draw attention to the fact that taxpayers paid excessive taxes compared to the public services they received, or, to put it another way, that they do not receive an equivalent amount of public services with respect to the tax they pay.
Could commercial entities provide the equivalent service on a privatized or contract basis?
The city's Law Department, while disputing that the cab is a van, said that even if it were, federal law does not require a taxicab van to be accessible if disabled passengers can find equivalent service another way.
Monetization refers to the conversion of goods and services into profit, or 'coin into money'; compensation is where 'something is given or received as an equivalent for services'.
