The products that work with Skype require you to pay for a data plan from your cellphone provider.

Alltel, which is the largest regional cellphone provider, could also buy other smaller rivals.

No cellphone provider has consistently good reception everywhere.

However, the cellphone provider must be accessible.

This is very useful outside the range of a cellphone provider as well as reducing network charges.

There are different colors sold by different cellphone providers.

Starting Nov. 24, consumers will be allowed, under new federal rules, to take their phone numbers with them when they switch cellphone providers.

Vodafone, the world's largest cellphone provider, has that option.

It is one of several new cellphone providers which launched in 2010 in Canada.

The commission also eliminated a rule that had prohibited the merger of two cellphone providers in the same market.