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    Comparing @DT_IR's website to @TMobile's IR/Newsroom site, Deutsche Telekom's site is a million times better!

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    Oreo cookies
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    So far, one company has sent me anything in regards to #MWC14. It wasn't an invite to a booth or whatever, but it seems I'm moving up!

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    RT @CamgianCEO: Surprise visitor who air dropped from my ceiling to deliver a few minutes of chaos @CamgianMicro. #neveradullmoment http://…

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    Is there a Word template file for making petitions to the FCC out there? It's really difficult to craft one by hand...

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    RT @JamesMoore_org: Tomorrow at 5pm in Ottawa I will announce the results of the 700 MHz spectrum auction.

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    President's Day was yesterday. Bidding was suspended, and we're moving into 9 rounds per day, starting today.
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    I'm seriously grumpy. @CSpire will never bring FTTH Internet service where I live. Of course only the "rich" fiberhood is going to get it.

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    Why does @TMobile have a completely different (and poorly done) website for Puerto Rico? Shouldn't they use the same website as rest of USA?

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    I've fully completed watching @HouseofCards. It was really intense! I wish we didn't have to wait another year for Season 3...

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    The definition is intentionally vague, because it is impossible to define what is considered "substantial" service when you are intentionally not defining what specific technology you are using. Sure you could use some form of "user" benchmarks (like guaranteed network performance levels within the license area), but those are woozy and not likely to hold up because they don't address the fundamental matter of "covering" people in terms of an RF license. Population percentages would work, except the FCC has a lot of trouble enforcing that requirement on virtually all licenses that have such a requirement. Instead, the FCC allows the individual RF license operator to make a case for defining their work as "substantial service", and it is approved on a case-by-case basis.
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    Nintendo World
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    In Japan, shame is an extremely effective means of getting something done. He may be employing this tactic to see if it'll work.
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    And that is exactly what the 1996 Telecommunications Act was supposed to create. The problem was, most of the "competitive cable franchises" went bankrupt within five to eight years of launch. And you can guess where they went... RCN and WOW! are the remaining "competitive cable franchises" of a short-lived bygone era...
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    I've been having issues with @vpsnoc lately. The server connection latency rose and speeds fell, making it useless. Any alternatives?

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    Wow. Cold. And hateful.
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    crotch rocket
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    The 1996 Telecommunications Act made exclusive franchises illegal for cable and telecom and voided all existing agreements with exclusivity clauses in place. That year, all franchise agreements with exclusivity clauses were re-negotiated without the clause (though most of them wound up doubling the term of the contract, instead). Most municipalities are perfectly willing to grant more franchise agreements, but nearly all telecom and cable companies have standing implicit no-compete agreements to prevent overlap. Notable exceptions are RCN, WOW!, Google Fiber, and C Spire Fiber. All of these are classed as "competitive cable franchises", and they operate in the same framework that a cable company does. RCN and WOW! are both cable companies in the traditional sense (they use coaxial cable networks and use "cable" standards like DOCSIS), while Google Fiber and C Spire Fiber are cable companies only in the legal sense (being classed as a telecom company would open them to common carriage and universal service provisions on the books for telecom companies). With the exception of WOW! (which has some areas where it has no overlap with another cable company), all of them completely overlap in the territory of another cable company.
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    RT @haroldfeld: Comcast/TWC much more comparable to AT&T/T-Mo than Comcast/NBCU. Do or die moment for industry.

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    It's not a 50-50 split, and some Ericsson markets are also complete replacements, too. Though this mainly is in zones where MetroPCS and T-Mobile both use Ericsson (California and Florida are example markets). NSN dominates the modernization effort, and they've replaced Nokia, Nortel, Lucent, and Ericsson gear. Sprint's project, in terms of current footprint, is evenly split among three vendors. However, Samsung will get the bulk of the network expansion that will occur over the next few years, since Samsung's region covers most of the uncovered areas of the country. As that rolls out, we'll see it shift to make Samsung the dominant vendor of Sprint's Network Vision and Spark programs.
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    RT @CamgianCEO: Camgian Micro is hiring. Donuts and fresh ground coffee for engineers! See http://t.co/TEvPOAFFqv #M2M #IoT http://t.co/l…

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    T-Mobile is replacing its 2G and 3G gear with new multi-mode 2G/3G/4G gear in order to conserve space and make room for a 700MHz LTE overlay later on. The major difference between T-Mobile's deployment and Sprint's deployment is that T-Mobile already worked out backhaul providers years ago, and can merely renegotiate to expand backhaul capacity. Sprint has to effectively start from scratch, because a lot of its existing backhaul isn't suitable for mobile broadband service.
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    That depends entirely on where those sites are going. Going off of what Sprint has done so far, I wouldn't be surprised if it covers less than 50 million people.
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    It's under transactions. Like the USCC customers it acquired, Sprint has been churning them out.
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    My car is completely encased in ice. Even if I wanted to go somewhere, I can't! I can't even open the door! http://t.co/svpGYCiZdS

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