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Play Store Carrier Billing Lands On Verizon Today - Parents, Set Your PINs

Posted by in Apps/Games, News, Verizon Wireless

If you're a Verizon Wireless customer, you might be seeing a new payment option in your Play Store billing screen this morning. That option, as you've probably guessed, is carrier billing. We reported on the announcement just a couple of weeks ago.

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For a lot of folks, this is easier than adding a credit card to the Play Store, but if you've got kids (or other spendthrift loved ones), this presents a new and exciting danger to your wallet. Be sure to set a Play Store PIN on your phone in the Settings menu - nobody wants to see a $40 payment to Zynga tacked onto their phone bill at the end of the month.

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David Ruddock
David's phone is an HTC One X+. He is an avid writer, and enjoys imparting a legal perspective on Android news where it is relevant. He also doesn't usually write such boring sentences.

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  • Christian

    Nice of them to do this and not release Jelly Bean to there customers

    • raazman

      What phone do you have?

      • Christian

        Samsung Galaxy S3 (Verizon)

        • jammer

          Me too, but I have Jelly Bean. Just not from an OTA update.

          • Christian

            How you get the Verizon update...you rooted?

          • jammer

            I'm not using Samsung's TouchWiz. I'm using CM10. Get.cm

          • Christian

            I don't know how to use those. Looking interesting though

          • jammer

            I recommend reading about the d2vzw variant in XDA forums. Search Google for "d2vzw xda official cm10" should be one of the first posts.

          • Christian

            Yeah I am reading up on this. Looks promising

          • Christian

            This looking interesting, reading up it now. Thank you.

    • Jon Garrett

      their

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=524116311 Steve Schaper

    Combined with near-field purchasing, this sounds like a tremendous security risk. Is it?

  • Alberto Hamade

    This is old news. I saw it yesterday when I bought Need For Speed: Most Wanted.

  • Jon Garrett

    want this for AT&T

  • http://pctonic.net/ Ashutosh Mishra

    Oh god, why is the Decline button not aligned with the Terms of Service box? OCD attack.

  • MicroNix

    Absolutely hilarious. VZW won't allow us to have the Google Wallet app but they'll gladly bill you via Google Wallet. Jackwagons...