The percentage of electronics at the end of their lives which were recycled.
The EPA found that the percentage remained consistent from 1999-2005. Even as recycling rates went up, the amount of electronics reaching end of life outpaced the increase, leaving the figure static. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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C'mon, I can just see the commericials:
America's number network just got better.
Or
[In a pastoral setting] Can you hear me now?
*cocky smile* Of course you can.
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Hey, VZW can't have all the fun, since it's keeping some of the network to have GSM, "other GSM carrier[s]" can claim, their networks got better, too. It's a win/win situation, no?....well, besides those Rural Cellular customers who fancied their GSM coverage.
Unicel just spent a lot of money in the last few years to convert their GSM customers from TDMA. Now yet again they'll be dragged into another 'next generation network'. However, this time around, they don't get to keep their 50$ unlimited phone plans, or their free incoming messages, or their free incoming minutes. They get told instead 50$ gets them 900 minutes.
It's a HUGE difference not just in platform, but the fact that the GOOD plans for rural folks will go away, along with probably several hundred jobs.