These are recent permissions for a new feature which allow you to track your plan usage (minutes/sms/data etc) within the app. We wrote details about why we needed these on our blog: http://opensignal.com/blog/2012/11/29/new-permissions-in-ver....
A good example of this is Elixir 2 which has various add-ons. There are several ways of doing it depending on how deep you need the integration to be. And it provides a way to add optional future functionality.