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    Slive more powerful RT @drjjoyner For some reason, Google lists the Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of the real SEC in its listings

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    RE penalties I mean kicks from the penalty spot as a tiebreaker, not PKs in general.

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    Path to Middle East peace: publish inflammatory Mohammed images every week, watch religious nutjobs kill each other, soon none will remain.

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    My experience was a bit more variable. Up in the mountains in Blacksburg, nTelos was decent outside but if you got inside one of those Hokie Stone buildings on the VT campus you might as well be in a Faraday cage. My apartment was half-underground and 3G signal was usually in the -95 to -110 dBm range on my OG Evo, occasionally getting kicked onto 1X (which was horrid). If I had to guess on what happens regarding nTelos, it probably involves a Sprint buyout in 2014 or so, or at the very least getting subsumed into an affiliate relationship like Shentel; I could also see Shentel taking them over with Sprint's blessing. They have some nice chunks of 15+15 PCS that could be useful for LTE expansion once customers are moved onto Sprint's overlapping PCS holdings, even without touching the AWS they have (which could probably be dumped off onto T-Mobile or someone else).
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    That seems exceedingly unlikely. VZW is the premium brand in the wireless space. I have no doubt their caps will eventually go up, due to competitive pressure (and marginal bandwidth is cheap), but I doubt base pricing is likely to go down unless customers start defecting en masse, or finally figure out they're (in most cases) better off on prepaid, which there's no sign of happening. Everyone in the industry is about increasing ARPU; you don't gain ARPU by lowering prices. Now, circa 2020 when we have a European-style wireless market with 3-4 national carriers (VZW, ATT, and whatever shakes out of Sprint, T-Mobile, and regional carrier consolidation) where everyone is on LTE Advanced & VoLTE, every phone can talk on 700, 850, SMR, 900, 1800, 1900, AWS, and 2500, changing carriers is as simple as popping in a new nanoSIM or doing an NFC scan of an activation card, and carrier subsidies for new phones get much smaller, maybe prices will go down due to competition.
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    Oh goody, let the counter-boycott commence! RT @dmataconis Report: Chick-Fil-A To Stop Funding Anti-Gay Groups http://t.co/vZT5DHoL

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    Nope, Radford and most of SW Virginia (down to Marion or so) is nTelos wholesale territory. The dividing line is NE of Staunton.
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    The "preexisting conditions" effect of Obamacare: less than you might have thought. http://t.co/xzIHR4aa

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    Offsets all those Americans working for no one. MT @BreakingNews Obama says president has to 'work for everyone' - @AP http://t.co/44RMbZYo

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    Laurie Lin (@KitchenCabinet_) on why Romney needs to repudiate Bush (and how). http://t.co/ke79vn6e

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    Democrats did so well nominating "electable" Massachusetts liberals in 1988, 2004 that the GOP decided to get in on the act this year.

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    Irony: everyone posting this graphic is falling for the ecological fallacy, same as Romney did. http://t.co/ECgWQ6TQ via @laura11D 

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    Romney clearly overstated for effect. But polling data bears it out. Romney loses on optics & MoJo spin, not substance, here.

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    Apparently Romney's now in trouble for accurately describing Democratic identifiers' positions on the ANES services/spending scales.

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    First the Chinese, now #Occupy is apparently offended by YouTube clips of films mocking Mohammed. Everybody Apparently Loves Mohammed!

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    Moral hazard anyone? RT @WinthropPoll At least after bailouts, we know banks won't make risky bets, right? .... right? http://t.co/bAE4qcnL

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    NCLB created "high-stakes testing"? Ha! Try on some good old-fashioned British high-stakes testing for size. http://t.co/MDHeTkue

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    Uh, why did we just get a Mizzou ad during UT-Ole Miss?

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    Pretty sure ESPN has been doing this latest @Apple "invention" for the best part of a decade. #priorart http://t.co/jX0LM921

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    eHRPD shouldn't affect data speeds in and of itself; all it does is "proxy" your IP between the LTE and CDMA-EVDO networks so when you hand-off between 3G and 4G you don't change addresses (so any data sessions in progress can make the jump). It reduces problems like "Page not found" errors when you're in the browser and a 3G->4G or 4G->3G hand-off happens. Presumably, eventually, ideally each handset will able to have a long-term Mobile IPv6 address that follows it regardless of network (so cellular-Wifi handoff will be seamless too), but for now eHRPD is a baby step in the right direction.
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    "Historical drama" characters named "George," "Hillary," and "Condalisa" [sic]? Wouldn't this strike YOU as strange? http://t.co/lFFy3WlP

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    #WhiteCollar: come for the Peter-Neal bromance, stay for Elizabeth (@TAThiessen). Gratuitous cheesecake: http://t.co/iSFubDl7

     

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    It appears @Wikileaks has memory-holed their disgusting, blame-the-victim tweet about #Libya. The irony, it burns. http://t.co/uNx9UWSV

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    Oh goody, Rep. Peter King (R/Sinn Fein-NY) is chiming in with a statement about how politicians should react to terrorism.

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    I was in class trying to explain the exclusionary rule. So, fill me in. What Android features did Apple just "invent"?

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