1. Before the 1830s, most newspapers were sold through annual subscriptions in America, usually $8 to $10 a year. 在19世纪30年代以前，美国的大多数报纸都是通过年度订阅销售的，通常是一年8到10美元。
2. Only 6.1 percent of users have ever appealed to supervisory departments and about half of them do not know how to cancel unwanted SMS subscriptions. 仅有6.1%的手机用户曾向监管部门提出申诉，其中约一半人不知道如何取消不想要的短信订阅服务。
3. A report last year pointed out that the costs both of subscriptions and of these "article preparation costs" had been steadily rising at a rate above inflation. 去年的一份报告指出，订阅费和“文章准备成本”的费用一直在以高于通胀率的速度稳步上升。
4. Meanwhile the mobile phone subscriptions in developing countries have witnessed a slow increase from 1990 to 2004 and then a great surge from 2004 to 2007: the biggest surge happens from 2005 to 2006. 与此同时，发展中国家的手机用户从1990年到2004年出现了缓慢增长，然后从2004年到2007年出现了大幅增长：最大的增长发生在2005年到2006年。
