JimBob

My dream (semi)retirement life includes sitting on several company boards of directors so that I get good money for just a few meetings each year.

Join the Army. Specifically, the Signal Corps: http://usmilitary.about.com/od/enlistedjobs/a/25.-uJt.htm They will pay you to learn a skill that you are interested in and can later get a well-paying civilian job with.

Main improvements I want are a better camera and triband LTE support. Removeable SIM card would also be nice.

They were trying to seduce you.

I have initiated a position in Sprint at $6.56 I will buy more if there are further good price drops. In the near-term, hopefully the next iPhone is triband.

No.

Contributing Authors have a special place in my heart. :wub:

Excellent. I want a new high-end slider phone with at least 4.3" screen and triband support in 2013.

Agree. Congrats to any of you Microsoft shareholders.

A company will invest their money if they believe there is opportunity to grow the company and/or expand their market share. A company will return money to investors via buybacks and/or dividends if they have no better use for the money and/or shareholders expect periodic income from their investment (stock) in the company. Sprint has had terrible losses of money over the past ~7 years, so they distribute no dividends. Lots of their (borrowed) money go towards investment, such as Network Vision.

If I was running a business, I would not use Sprint either.

After sentencing, Manning demands hormone therapy to become a woman and be called "Chelsea." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/us/bradley-manning-says-he-is-female.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323980604579027133430671484.html 'The race to build out advanced cellphone networks in the U.S. has contributed to a spike in deaths among tower workers, making this one of the industry's deadliest years and drawing fresh scrutiny from federal regulators. At least 10 workers have died in falls from communication towers so far this year, and three more were seriously injured. That included four climbers who have fallen from U.S. cell sites so far this month, including one on Saturday. ... OSHA has estimated there are roughly 10,000 workers in the U.S. communication tower industry. Ten deaths may not seem like a huge number, but it is enough proportionally to rank the industry among the deadliest in the country. ... Construction managers say there is so much work this year that many crews are working around the clock and haven't taken days off in weeks. One project manager said crews are working 12- or 16-hour days and, when they get tired, forget to clip on safety lines or clip them on improperly. Workers climb towers hundreds of feet high to replace surfboard-sized antennas and perform general maintenance, such as replacing cables and fixing broken equipment. Constantly attaching and reattaching a safety harness as climbers move about the tower can cut into speed. Earlier this month, two climbers fell at Sprint sites. John Dailey, 49 years old, died after falling roughly 200 feet from a tower in North Carolina. He was attempting to connect his safety harness to the tower when he fell, said a spokesman for the North Carolina Department of Labor. David Huynh was working on a Sprint site at the edge of a cemetery in Eugene, Ore., when an aerial lift he was standing in tipped over, police said. Mr. Huynh is in critical condition at Oregon Health & Science University hospital in Portland, said a hospital spokeswoman. ... Alcatel-Lucent is one of three major contractors managing Sprint's builds, and in May the company instituted a Tower Construction Acceleration Program, which pays contractors a $3,000 bonus for finishing a site on time with no defects. A manager at one contracting company, who pointed out that some jobs pay $12,000 per site, said the bonuses encourage them to work more quickly. ... Payman Biazarikari, an Iranian immigrant, had been in the U.S. for two weeks when he fell about 160 feet to his death earlier this month on a job for nTelos, according to the Waynesboro, Va., police department. nTelos is a wireless carrier operating in several Southeastern states.'

Becoming a premier sponsor changed my life.

My device?

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3101-sprint-lte-markets-current-and-coming-soon/

Checked into Hampton Inn at Downtown Raleigh. 4G LTE in my hotel room: 8mbps download / 4mbps upload

Chain yourself to the tower.

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3913-network-vision-site-acceptance-report-updates/

Topic necromancy should be banned.

According to their website: "Defense Mobile will offer Fixed Monthly Rate plans starting at $20, unlimited plans starting at $40, and family share plans starting at $60, all available with or without a two-year contract. Our plans will be available at one of our branch specific website starting Veterans Day 2013." If this is true, I might switch to them. http://defensemobilecorp.com/plans/

Stick it out.

Yes.

Visited a friend who lives in a suburb neighborhood of Winston Salem. No 4G, and the 3G was unuseable (16kbps) outside. Inside, the phone either had no signal or was roaming.

Yes. Hopefully more towers go live closer to Fort Gordon.