Just knock on a neighbor's door, and ask if she might be able to spare some wireless.
The $5 billion deal Lucent Technologies announced today with Verizon Wireless will spare them some short-term pain, but is only a spit in the bucket when it comes to Lucent's long-term recovery.
If you have some spare money, consider investing in wireless CCTV systems.
The idea: you install it on a spare Android smartphone, turning it into a wireless home-security camera, detecting motion and then able to shoot photos and videos, send you SMS and email alerts, or sound an alarm.
Wireless carriers in the United States were spared some of the Europeans' pain because network ambitions and construction have tended to trail those in Europe.
The company, based in Denver, said its newer equipment, lower costs and concentration on high-growth businesses like wireless communications and broadband Internet service spared it from the problems that competitors like SBC Communications and AT&T were experiencing.
Instead, Clearwire could run an auction of what the hedge fund called its spare spectrum, which could fetch higher prices from any number of wireless companies looking to build their own networks.
Coinstar operates coin-counting machines, which allow consumers to convert their spare change to bills, as well as prepaid services, like credit cards and wireless telephone time.
Thing Four: No Data For You! AT&T and other wireless operators are putting the brakes on unlimited data usage to spare what they say are overtaxed networks, writes Brian Chen of the New York Times.
