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North Huntingdon residents want yard maintenance rule
Just before Marbury Drive curves into a cul-de-sac, house No. 354 stands on a property that some say resembles a jungle bungalow more than a suburban home.
Neighbors complain about its appearance amid their vibrant flower boxes and trimmed hedges. Owner Margaret Paulone however, says she purposely has 500 different plants growing in her front and back yards.
Complaints to township commissioners, fire departments and zoning officers have been futile because North Huntingdon has no ordinance to regulate yard maintenance. Now, the neighbors of Marbury Drive have banded together to push the township to create one.
"I don't believe there's anything in the property maintenance code to regulate this," said Andy Blenko, township planning director. "Under the present set of rules, there's really nothing we can do."
A potential ordinance would have to be objective, something Blenko said he is unsure how to approach.
"It's tough for us to regulate," he said. "It's like trying to regulate what color a house should be painted. It really comes down to aesthetics. How do you set an objective standard?"
Paulone's two-story blue house on Marbury Drive is blocked from street view by vegetation, including tall decorative grass, ivy and pine trees.
If such an ordinance passes, she said she's not sure she would conform.
"If it says I have to dig out all my plants, then no I'm not going to comply," she said. "That's unconstitutional."
Paulone said some of the plants are taller than she would like. It has been at least three years since she has trimmed some of the bushes and larger trees, she said.
Paulone said none of her neighbors have approached her regarding her yard. She calls herself an "avid gardener" and says she spent about $1,000 on different kinds of plants.
"These are plants. These are beautiful garden plants," she said. "These plants are just being themselves."
But beyond the appearance, neighbors have noted increased sightings of feral cats, raccoons and groundhogs.
"It's terrible," Tom Regester, who lives a few doors down from the home, said. "I've called the fire company at least four times."
Regester said he is particularly concerned with an ivy plant that has wrapped itself around a telephone pole and extended its reach to the top wires of the pole.
Neighbor Stephen Dorazio, who has collected 23 signatures on a petition, said the home is causing "health and safety" issues, among other things.
"I'm sick of it," Dorazio said. "It's defacing the value of my house. It just needs to be rectified."
Amanda Dolasinski is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-856-7400, ext. 8626.


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WPA2-Personal on Cisco1811w
Try and try, we have been unable to use WPA2 (Pre-shared Key aka Personal) to connect to a Cisco1811w.
This works fine if we turn off encryption.
What we see in debug messages is (debug dot11 station connection failure).
*Dec 18 21:17:05.041 CST: Client c417.fed5.8522 failed: Dot1x MIC mismatch
*Dec 18 21:17:05.137 CST: Client c417.fed5.8522 failed: Dot1x MIC mismatch
*Dec 18 21:17:05.237 CST: Client c417.fed5.8522 failed: Dot1x MIC mismatch
*Dec 18 21:17:05.337 CST: %DOT11-7-AUTH_FAILED: Station c417.fed5.8522 Authentication failed
We have tried an 8 character and 11 character pre-shared key. Same results. Why are we getting Dot1x MIC mismatch?
Can someone please help us find what is wrong?
Cisco IOS Software, C181X Software (C181X-ADVENTERPRISEK9-M), Version 12.4(24)T3
! config parts
aaa new-model
aaa authentication login default local
aaa authentication login VPN local
aaa authorization exec default local
aaa authorization network VPN local
dot11 ssid ACDinternet
vlan 98
authentication open
authentication key-management wpa
wpa-psk ascii 7 010013165D0E141F205E5A10
interface Dot11Radio0
no ip address
encryption vlan 98 mode ciphers aes-ccm tkip
ssid ACDinternet
speed basic-1.0 basic-2.0 basic-5.5 6.0 9.0 basic-11.0 12.0 18.0 24.0 36.0 48.0 54.0
station-role root
no cdp enable
interface Dot11Radio0.98
encapsulation dot1Q 98
no cdp enable
bridge-group 98
bridge-group 98 subscriber-loop-control
bridge-group 98 spanning-disabled
bridge-group 98 block-unknown-source
no bridge-group 98 source-learning
no bridge-group 98 unicast-flooding
bridge irb
bridge 98 protocol ieee
bridge 98 route ip
interface BVI98
ip address 192.168.98.1 255.255.255.0
ip access-group 198 in
ip nat inside
ip virtual-reassembly
ip tcp adjust-mss 1452
Thanks for any support you can provide!
I understand it's a Cisco router, but the commands are the same for the AP. Try to manually configure the client for wpa/tkip and see if your client connects. If it does, then the configuration is not for WPA2. Usually if that is not an option, it means the radio/ios doesn't support wpa2.
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It's likely this summer that we will be seeing former top youngsters leave the club. and they will probably include Shane Ferguson, Conor Newton, James Tavernier, Haris Vuckic, Michael Richardson, Mehdi Abeid and even Adam Campbell.
Adam Armstrong – our current best young hope?
It also looks like a top young player we acquired two years ago – Gael Bigirimana – could also be taking the Newcastle exit door.
Newcastle put an emphasis on youth back in January of 2008, shortly after Mike Ashley had bought the club, but even though we have brought in many good young players the club have been unsuccessful in bringing even one of them through to play regularly for the first team, and maybe Sammy Ameobi is the closest we've got to doing that.
Probably Newcastle's best younger players at the moment are local lad Adam Armstrong and Freddie Woodman, who became European U17 Champions with England yesterday, when we beat (thrashed?) the Netherlands on penalties, after a 1-1 draw in normal time.
20 year-old Australian International center-back Curtis Good is also one who will probably be a starter for Australia in the World Cup this summer in Brazil, and is top young player right now.
But we have brought in so many youngsters who have failed, and over the last six years they have included Brad Inman, Ben Tozer, Fabio Zamblera, Jeff Henderson, Joan Símun Edmundsson, Kazenga Lua Lua, Ole Soderberg, Ryan Donaldson, JJ Hooper, Andy Mogwo, Samuel Adjei, Tamas Kadar, Wesley Ngo Baheng and Yven Moyo.
And now this summer we will probably add Shane Ferguson, Conor Newton, James Tavernier, Haris Vuckic, Michael Richardson, Mehdi Abeid to that rather long list.
So something is not working at Newcastle, as far as bringing young players through the ranks, and it's a vital part of Newcastle's strategy to compete with the top six clubs in England.
If Newcastle are serious about bringing through the younger players, then they have to admit that what they have been doing over the last six years simply hasn't worked.
And they must now do something constructive and positive about it – do things differently – look at how and why other clubs have been successful with their youngsters – to try to turn it all around.
We just have to hope that the Youth Academy and our failure to develop young players into first teamers at Newcastle, was discussed at the end of season meeting between Alan Pardew and the Newcastle Board, and that the problems were pinpointed and a plan put in place to improve things.
We really hope that happened.
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1. Re: DROID BIONIC no ability to save photos that have been texted and other photo problemsWildman Dec 3, 2011 9:25 PM (in response to Raptor55)
Raptor55 wrote:
I am new to this forum but I am very frustrated with my DROID BIONIC. Specifically, I have found that when I receive a photo in a text message, I have no options for the photo - I cannot save it, I cannot send it to anyone else.....
Save Files
1. Go to Text Messages view, threader veiw that shows the pic preview when its not opened.
2. Press and hold on Pic
3. Select Save from the list\
4. Now the pic should be saved in SD/Messages folder
1. Open Email
2. At top there should be the number and the words "View Attachments" - Click on View Attachments
3. Now you should have a list of attachments with a arrow next to it if not downloaded.
4. Click file you want to download and you should get a animation where the arrow was that is indicating its being downloaded.
5. Once the animation stops this means file has been downloaded to a temp file to be viewed.
6. Now Press and Hold on file text and a window should open with three options - VIEW - SAVE- and SHARE
7. Select Save from list
8. Once complete it will have a little message at bottom of page that says "File was downloaded to SD Card"
9. Now file will be saved in SD / Messages folder on SD Card.
To Save As Wallpaper:
1. Open Gallery
2. Click on photo
3. Click Left Menu button
4. Select "More"
5. Select "Set As"
6. Wallpaper
7. Click Save after you resize image to preferred size
Also, I do not want to see other people's photos on my phone and I have turned off that option but I still get one photo from FB showing up on my gallery. I only want to see my photos!
Open the persons contact information / Menu / Edit and look for the Link Option and unlink the contact to Facebook should resolve this issue.
Additionally, I used to have a DROID GLOBAL 2 with all kinds of photos and downloaded music but I cannot get it transferred over to my new phone. Help!!!
Remove the SD Card from the Droid Global 2 and place in PC card reader adn copy all images off the card and then plug the Bionic with the USB and Pull Down Status Bar and switch to Mass Storage and then go to PC Computer area and open the Storage Drive added and copy data to the location you choose....
If you have issues with Bionic you can pull its card out and place in PC Card reader and copy data that way...


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Warning hits telecoms shares
Shares in Europe's mobile phone makers and operators have fallen sharply on the back of comments by Ericsson president Kurt Hellstrom.
In an interview with Swedish business newspaper Dagens Industri, Mr Hellstrom warned that the spiralling cost of 3G licence fees could slow growth for both mobile suppliers and operators.
"It's clear that growth on the mobile market risks slowing as a consequence of the high charges. It's like petrol. It's clear that we consume less petrol with the current high petrol prices," he said.
In the UK, the government recenty raised Ł22.4bn through the sale of new mobile phone licenses, and other European countries are planning to do the same.
Future still bright
However, Mr Hellstrom said that although licence costs could slow growth, there was no serious long-term challenge to the expansion of third generation systems.
"The risk is there. But I don't think it will go so far as that the building of the 3G network will stop," he said.
Despite this, his remarks hit shares in the sector across the continent.
By early afternoon, the world's leading mobile phone maker, Finland's Nokia, was down 7%, while Ericsson had fallen almost 5%.
Negative sentiment also spread to rival telecoms equipment makers and mobile phone operators.
Shares in the world's largest mobile phone operator, Vodafone Airtouch fell 5.7%, while French telecoms equipment maker Alcatel dropped 4.8%.
BT fell 2.7%, while Cable & Wireless dropped 5.7%.
Ericsson later moved to reassure investors that it had no plans to change its forecast of fast growth in the wireless industry.
Nothing new
Market traders said there was nothing new in the comments and that Nokia had said something similar a few weeks ago.
But investors remain uneasy about the prospects for the industry.
Analysts and some industry representatives are worried that the high cost of licences could force operators to scale down investments in building 3G networks and pass on the costs to consumers.
Last week, Schroder Salomon Smith Barney cut its rating on telecoms to underweight for the third quarter on concerns about the large amounts of money being paid for licences.
On Monday, Lehman Brothers downgraded world number two handset maker Motorola to "outperform" from "buy" due to concerns about future profitability.
German auction
Matthew Lewis, technology analyst at Daiwa SBMC Europe, said the full impact of licence costs could not be assessed until the German 3G auction, due to begin on 31 July, was completed.
Four to six licences will be sold to the highest bidders. Analysts expect the licences to cost about 10 billion euros (Ł6.26bn) each.
"There are obviously fears about the high cost of 3G licences, but once the German auction is carried through we'll be in a position to assess the cost of 3G licences in Europe," Mr Lewis said.
3G, or Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), is a mobile telephony standard that will enable operators to provide video and fast internet services to mobiles and other wireless devices.
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MetroPCS Communications (PCS) Q1 2011 Earnings Call May 3, 2011 9:00 AM ET
Roger Linquist - Founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
Thomas Keys - Chief Operating Officer
J. Carter - Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President
Keith Terreri - Vice President of Finance and Treasurer
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the MetroPCS Communications First Quarter 2011 Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] This conference call is being recorded today, May 3, 2011. And I'd now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Keith Terreri, Vice President and Treasurer for MetroPCS. Please go ahead, sir.
Keith Terreri
Thank you, Allen, and good morning, everyone. I'm Keith Terreri. I'd like to welcome you to our first quarter 2011 conference call.
The speakers with me this morning are Roger Linquist, our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer; Tom Keys, our Chief Operating Officer; and Braxton Carter, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The format for today's call is as follows: first, Tom will provide an update on a number of operational results and initiatives; then, Braxton will review the financial highlights of the first quarter of 2011; and then Roger will provide an overview of our business, followed by a question-and-answer session.
During today's call, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. We have reconciled these historical non-GAAP measures to GAAP measures on our earnings release, which is available at www.metropcs.com under the Investor Relations tab.
Before I turn the call over to Tom, I want to remind you that certain information that we will discuss in this conference call may constitute forward-looking statements within the meanings of federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are any statements not of historical fact that involve risks, assumptions and uncertainties that may not occur or could cause actual results or the timing of events to materially differ from those made in the forward-looking statements. Words such as believes, anticipates, expects, intends, plans, should, could, would, view, estimates, projects and other similar expressions typically identify forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements we make regarding our future operational or financial plans, our prospects for success and our positioning in the highly competitive wireless industry. Furthermore, included in our forward-looking statements are statements regarding the effect of seasonality on our business, the value of our services, the outlook for growth and churn in future quarters, pricing, our subscriber mix, opportunities related to handsets' availability and pricing, our expected buildout of our 4G LTE network, it's worldwide growth, and the potential economies of scales to be obtained, our positioning from a balance sheet perspective and cost competitive position, our estimates of capital expenditures and other statements which are not historical.
Management may make additional forward-looking statements in response to questions. Additionally, our forward-looking statements are subject to the risk factors described in our earnings release in our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K, copies of which can be obtained free of charge from the SEC at www.sec.gov, or from our website or directly from contacting the Investor Relations Department. We encourage you to review these documents.
We have also provided supplemental slides that are available for download and printing on our Investor Relations website. These slides may contain forward-looking statements. We may refer to these slides during our prepared remarks and in response to questions. I'd like to remind you that the results for the first quarter may not be reflective of results for the full year or any subsequent period. For anyone listening to a taped or webcast replay, or reviewing a written transcript of today's call, please note that all information presented is current and should be considered valid only as of May 3, 2011 regardless of the date reviewed, read or replayed.
MetroPCS disclaims any intention or obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or developments or otherwise except as required by law. The company does not plan to update or reaffirm guidance except through formal public disclosure pursuant to Regulation FD. Certain terms that are used in today's call are registered trademarks of MetroPCS. We intend to file our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2011, with the SEC by May 10.
At this time, I'd like to turn the call over to our Chief Operating Officer, Tom Keys.
Thomas Keys
Thank you, Keith. Good morning, everyone. First quarter was a record quarter for the company. We recorded the highest net subscriber additions in company history of over 725,000, bringing our total subscriber base to approximately $8.9 million.
We also recorded very strong gross additions of over 1.5 million for the quarter. In the last 12 months, we have added over 1.5 million net subscribers, resulting in a 21% increase in our subscriber base and a penetration rate of 9%, up from 7.8% just a year ago. This is a tremendous rate of growth within a very competitive wireless industry.
Also noteworthy in the quarter is our record low churn of 3.1%, down 60 basis points from last year's first quarter. Additionally during the quarter, we ran a successful handset promotion. During this promotion, we effectively managed the cost of customer acquisition. Our cost of churn in the first quarter is best of class in the wireless industry at below $5.
Looking towards our second and third quarters, I want to emphasize the seasonality inherent in this business. Historically, we've seen gross adds decrease, churn increase and net adds decrease during the second and third quarters of the year. It is possible that seasonality could accentuate in 2011, given the significant performance in the first quarter. We believe we can manage churn within the 3% to 4% range on a go-forward basis.
At the end of the first quarter, approximately 90% of our subscribers were on a tax-inclusive plan. In 2010, a little over half of our subscriber base upgraded their phones. In the first quarter of 2011, the upgrade trends continued, and 16% of our subscribers upgraded their handsets, compared to 14% during the first quarter of 2010.
Android handsets have been very popular with our subscribers, representing approximately 30% of gross additions in the first quarter. Our current strategy is to utilize a slightly higher handset subsidy as we reach out to new segments and introduce our value proposition, while being mindful of our total CPGA spend.
As we work to bring additional value to our subscribers, we are continuing our evolution as a no-contract wireless provider. Wireless for All was the first step in our ongoing evolution. It transformed the way we approach the customer and provided great value at a predictable and affordable price.
Our evolution continues as we are in the early stages of Phase 2, Android for All. We see a tremendous opportunity with the capabilities of smartphones running on the Android operating system. We currently offer 3 Android handsets and expect to introduce additional 3G and 4G LTE Android smartphones in the future. In time, as handset price curves come down and the industry scales, we plan to move towards the final phase of this campaign, LTE for All.
With the recent launch of 4G LTE in Tampa, we have introduced 4G LTE service in all of our major metropolitan areas. Our 4G network is performing well, and we continue to expand our footprint within the markets and expect to complete the majority of the buildout by the end of 2011.
Introduced towards the end of 2010, Metro USA provides MetroPCS subscribers with national coverage and a footprint that covers over 280 million POPs. National coverage provides our subscribers with incredible value and puts us at parity with the larger postpaid carriers, as we continue to provide a postpaid experience and a Pay-In-Advance, No-Contract model.
We believe providing this enhanced experience on a no-contract basis has allowed us to transition to new customer segments and significantly increase the brand's value for our existing subscriber base. We have the best-in-class cost structure, and we are constantly working to leverage this cost structure to increase our market share. Operationally, we continue to be heads down, as we focus on execution at every level.
Within our markets, some macroeconomic headwinds persist. Wireless continues to be a competitive space, but we are very pleased with our ability to plan, execute and deliver outstanding results during this first quarter. MetroPCS provides a platform for consumers to convert to the no-contract service model while upgrading to new 4G LTE service plans for their broadband needs.
We are very excited about the future. And now I'll turn the call over to Braxton.
J. Carter
Thanks, Tom. Good morning.
We reported record first quarter 2011 operational and financial results. We ended the quarter with approximately 8.9 million subscribers, up 21% from first quarter 2010 and up 47% over the past two years.
Even with the first quarter's record net subscriber growth, we also recorded our highest first quarter adjusted EBITDA in company history of $285 million, up approximately 28% year-over-year. This is the 10th quarter in a row in which we have reported year-over-year adjusted EBITDA growth of well over 10%.
Building on what was a strong 2010, our record first quarter results are largely due to three factors: our successful launch and execution of Wireless for All service plans; our Android smartphones; and our focus on managing our superior cost structure. We have a very strong balance sheet and substantial liquidity with approximately $1.7 billion in cash and short-term investments.
In March, we completed an amendment, restatement and expansion of our senior secured facility to expand the facility to include a new $500 million term loan. The new funds can be used for general corporate purposes, including opportunistic spectrum acquisitions. This amendment also modified certain limitations under our credit facility, including limitations on our ability to incur additional debt, fill assets and make certain investments or acquisitions. In addition, we are no longer subject to certain financial covenants, including maintaining a maximum senior secured leverage ratio.
Our total leverage was 3.5x computed in accordance with the indentures governing our senior notes at the end of March, and our net leverage at the end of the first quarter was approximately 2.1x. Based on a very manageable maturity schedule, a weighted average cost of debt for the quarter of approximately 6.1%, the majority of our debt fixed by its nature or through interest rate swaps and our significant liquidity, we believe we are very well positioned from a balance sheet perspective.
Churn for the quarter was 3.1%, a record low for the company and down 60 basis points year-over-year. This decrease in churn was primarily driven by the continued acceptance of our Wireless for All offerings, including a decline in false churn as a combination of our realigned dealer incentives and stronger value propositions took effect.
Please note that Wireless for All was introduced during the first quarter of 2010, so the benefits from the reduction of false churn were not fully realized in the first quarter a year ago. Additionally, with the seasonality inherent in this business and with the significant performance we had in the first quarter of 2011, we expect churn to increase and net additions to decrease during the second and third quarter.
Our first quarter 2010 -- 2011 ARPU was $40.42, up $0.59 on a year-over-year basis, and up $0.63 on a sequential basis. This is the first time our ARPU has exceeded $40 since the fourth quarter of 2009. The increase in ARPU year-over-year was primarily due to continued demand for our Wireless for All and 4G LTE rate plans. The burden on ARPU for our tax-inclusive plans continues to be in the $4 range per subscriber. This is the second quarter in a row in which we have reported a sequential increase in ARPU.
Our CPGA continues to be one of the lowest of any facilities-based wireless carriers in the U.S. For the first quarter, our CPGA was $157, up $11 over the prior year first quarter. This increase was primarily due to an increase in promotional activities. As can be seen in our supplemental slides, our current cost churn is below $5, which is truly best-in-class.
Our business continues to scale, and our CPU continues to be among the lowest in the wireless industry. Our CPU for the quarter was $19.79, as compared to $18.79 in the prior year's first quarter. This increase was primarily due to an increase in retention expense related to handset upgrades by existing customers and the inclusion of regulatory fees in our Wireless for All service plans, as well as costs associated with our 4G LTE network upgrade.
Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter was $285 million, an increase of approximately 28% year-over-year. Our adjusted EBITDA margin for the quarter was 27.2%, compared to 26.2% in the first quarter of 2010. Over the last 12 months, we have generated record adjusted EBITDA of $1.2 billion. This is particularly impressive given the potential margin dilution that could have occurred with the Wireless for All service plans, the significant increase in handset upgrades and our 4G LTE network rollout.
I'd like to highlight a few items from the income statement and cash flow statement. In the quarter, on a consolidated basis, our service revenue and cost of service grew 23% and 20%, respectively, to $1.1 billion and $340 million, respectively, over the same quarter in 2010. The increases are primarily due to the growth of our subscriber base.
Our consolidated selling, general and administrative expenses were $170 million for the first quarter of 2011, representing an increase of $10 million when compared to the year-ago quarter.
We generated $138 million in cash from operating activities in the quarter, a decrease of approximately $87 million from the prior year's first quarter. The decrease was primarily driven by a decrease in cash flows provided by changes in working capital. We incurred capital expenditures of $187 million during the first quarter. During the last 12 months, our unlevered free cash flow was approximately $400 million. Our results demonstrate our continued focus and ability to grow the business while generating cash flows over the long-term.
Our updated current estimate for total 2011 capital expenditures is $700 million to $900 million. This is an increase over the guidance given on the 2010 year-end earnings call and is primarily driven by the record first quarter net subscriber additions in capacity expenditures, in turn driven by the popularity of our Android handset offerings. We generated $56 million in consolidated net income during the first quarter, representing year-over-year growth of approximately 149% or $0.15 per share, compared to approximately $23 million and $0.06 per share in the prior-year quarter.
I'd now like to turn it over to Roger.
Roger Linquist
Thank you, Braxton. From an operational and financial viewpoint, I'm very pleased with this quarter's results.
With our record 1.5 million net subscriber additions in 2010 and this quarter's 725,000 net additions, subscriber growth has been truly outstanding. As we approach the 9 million subscriber milestone at the end of the first quarter, it is revealing to think that we crossed the 5 million subscriber milestone at the end of 2008, just over two years ago, and have grown subscribers at over a 33% CAGR since 2005.
In a very competitive marketplace, this is truly exceptional rate of growth. Clearly, the No-contract segment is here to stay. It's a frontier that we've pioneered. From the viewpoint we are seeing, an ongoing shift towards no-contract wireless service. The traditional wireless contract has served its purpose, which was to essentially allow customers to reduce their upfront costs and buy handsets on installment plans.
Prices for future phones over time have declined, and we believe that in the future, the same will happen with smartphones. At some point, there is no need for a contract obligation, when a customer is looking at a sub-$200 fully featured 4G smartphone. We believe we are well positioned to capitalize on this opportunity, having built and maintained our cost-leadership position in the No-Contract segment since the launch of our business in early 2002.
Our current smartphone ecosystem is accelerating and as Tom indicated, we expect to introduce 3G and 4G smartphones in 2011. With a focus on the small screen, we view this year as the year in which we will introduce a number of touchscreen Android smartphones. Subscribers are increasingly using their smartphones for entertainment and social networking as the Internet has gone wireless.
All of our major metropolitan areas now have 4G LTE, establishing our leadership position in this transformational technology. 4G LTE has become a dominant world force. With world volume of handsets on a single 4G LTE standard, we have an opportunity for substantial reductions in handset prices. With our focus on operating a low-cost facility-based model, we are very well positioned in this new Android world to provide subscribers a great value.
MetroPCS is taking the first step to migrate to a spectrum-efficient technology 4G LTE. As data requirements continue to expand, we are always interested in opportunistic spectrum acquisitions, and we are evaluating all potential sources.
We've had a great start to the year, both operationally and financially. We believe that we are well positioned from a competitive standpoint, and we see continued opportunities for growth, as subscribers' demand for smartphones increase. We delivered record net additions this quarter, and we intend to continue to leverage our cost-leadership position and drive further profitable growth.
Clearly, there are economic headwinds that the industry will be facing in the balance of 2011. These factors include rising gas prices, unemployment and a depressed housing industry. However, consumer interest in upgrading cellphones to smartphones, while managing the service costs, are encouraging trends for the No-Contract segment. With strong first quarter momentum, a cutting-edge 4G network, an exciting lineup of smartphones and our leadership position in the no-contract space, we believe we are well positioned to continue our profitable growth.
While this is a competitive space, Wireless for All, introduced in 2010, successfully transformed the company. This year, we will continue to innovate and push the industry with Phase 2 of the transformation, Android for All. In the future, the wireless experience will be further enhanced as we move towards the third phase, 4G LTE for All.
I'm very pleased with this quarter's results, and I look forward to updating you on our progress throughout the year. Thank you. Operator, we will now begin Q&A.
Question-and-Answer Session
[Operator Instructions] And we'll take our first question from Brett Feldman at Deutsche Bank.
Brett Feldman - Deutsche Bank AG
Towards the end of your comments, you're talking about spectrum. I realize you're looking at a lot of opportunities, but I was wondering if there's any broad criteria you can give us in terms of what's interesting to you. For example, are you only considering PCS and AWS bands? Is there a certain type of spectrum that's completely uninteresting to you? And then, just as a follow-up to one of the data points you gave. You talked about how 30% of gross adds in the quarter were Android smartphones. I was wondering if you can give a statistic for what percentage of total handset sales, including upgrades, were smartphones, and what the smartphone penetration was at the end of the quarter?
Roger Linquist
Let me take the first part of that, then I'll hand off the last part to Tom. PCS and AWS spectrum are, obviously, is what we're using now. I think the nature of what is available is going to suggest that we look as broad in the range as we can. Obviously, we have purchased some 700 megahertz that is not readily available now. But we look to the future options, and we hope the AWS band, AWS-2 will be available in the not-too-distant future. But to answer your question directly, we'd be looking at bands that we think are compatible with our existing wireless infrastructure. Tom?
Thomas Keys
Yes, Brett. On the second point, with regard to Android grosses, we talked about 30% of the grosses were Android. On the upgrade front, you can look at that as about 40% of all the upgrades were Android. That's approximate. And probably the existing base is under 20%, today.
Brett Feldman - Deutsche Bank AG
Great. And then just one quick follow-up question here, Roger. There's some expectation that we might see some divestitures coming out of AT&T and T-Mobile. If you could you just share your thoughts on whether you would actually be interested in acquiring entire operating markets. I think it's obvious you might be interested in the spectrum, if for whatever reason, that was available.
Roger Linquist
Good question. We're not sure what the result will be, but we think that from our standpoint -- I'll take this question as an AT&T, T-Mobile acquisition, we would hope very much that this concentration of spectrum and market power would lead us to divestitures of spectrum, as opposed of subscribers, network and spectrum. So we'll have to see how DOJ and FCC operate and what their decisions and final rules will be. But certainly, that would be a source of spectrum and potentially and we think that's an important step for the industry.
We'll take our next question from David Barden at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
David Barden
I guess, a couple and I apologize if they've been touched on a little bit. But just one, maybe Tom, you could talk a little bit about how BOGO influenced the first quarter results and kind of what your thinking is promotionally speaking as you get into the second quarter, which has traditionally been kind of your refresh period. Second, obviously, you guys had really strong success with a retail-focused model. Obviously, others have been betting that the big-box retailers are going to be the channel of the future. Kind of what experience did you have this quarter that either reaffirms your faith in the retail model or kind of makes you think more expansively about channel distribution? And the last one would be, maybe just some color on how the gas price trajectory in the last month or so has potentially impacted or could impact results into the second quarter.
Thomas Keys
David, this is Tom, I'll take the first two pieces, and then I'll throw the third one over to Roger. So on the BOGO, we think that the impact on gross additions was certainly less than 15%, at the end of the day, on new handsets that were from the promotion. We considered it a pulse marketing opportunity, where for the first quarter, we believe there was a great opportunity for MetroPCS to grow that base. So we felt that was a good way to do it, while being mindful of other CPGA elements that we purposely held back on, knowing that we would have some form of handset subsidy involved in the quarter. For the second quarter, we probably looked to optimize our branding and our advertising, trying to look at more opportunities to take consideration to actual purchase. We think we have a lot of headwinds from Wireless for All, and as mentioned on the call, in Phase 2, which is really Android For All, looking at the next round of handsets as we introduce new 3G and 4G handsets we talked about into the end of the quarter and into the third quarter. We think that will help refresh the lineup as well. With regards to your question on retail, we always think that retail is a great branding opportunity for the company to gain new awareness into new segments. We believe the movement is away from feature phones into smartphones, and it's a great place to put smartphones. We get good brand awareness. We do that in places like Best Buy, and they do support our opportunities. But we also know that inside of our own distribution, we've spoken about this being a consultative sale. This takes time at the counter, this takes people to understand the differences between a Windows 7, a Windows 6, an Android operating system. So at the counter, we can do that. We can ask questions. We can satisfy needs. So we don't think that goes away, but we think that retail is an important part of the branding awareness that we take into the future. Roger, you want to take the third part?
Roger Linquist
Yes. The notion was and the question is gas prices and its impact. I think there is an impact, and we will see it. I think we have been seeing it as the rising gas prices. But I would call your attention to the fact -- a comment I made earlier, that consumers, as they have an interest, are trying to manage all their expenses. So it's not just the acquisition of a new phone, it's the savings that they can realize on service plans month to month. And as I could point out to you on the family plans, our family plans for Android phones can save customers at least $1,000 if not $2,000 a year for a family of 3. So those factors have to be included. And I think we're going to begin to see people rationalize, not just whether or not they buy a handset but rationalize whether they're willing to continue to pay these elevated prices for service.
David Barden
All right, great. Congrats guys.
We'll get our next question from Ric Prentiss at Raymond James.
Richard Prentiss - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
Before any question, I apologize if it's been asked. If you think about the seasonality -- first, very strong results obviously. As you think about the changes you've made to your business model, as you think about the new environment of wireless, how do you see the seasonal trends playing out as far as churn, as far as EBITDA margins? And just kind of where you think we're headed in this industry and your unique spot in it.
Roger Linquist
Well, let me take a first shot at that. It's been -- this is going on our 10th year. And we plot what our gross gain or gross sales are and net gains. And it's amazing that the one trend that you can bet on is the amount of acceleration we get in the first quarter and then the ease that is the subscriber reductions that we would realize in second and third. I think we have another mechanism ongoing this year, which is a plus, and then that's the Android adoption rate, which has been very significant. The negative, of course, that could really fully offset this is the elements that I've talked about, not only the unemployment, gas prices but also the housing industry decline, which I believe, at least as it relates to our market segments, has a very, very significant impact because of the general nature of the trades business and the like that could be more disproportionate within our customer base. But I do think that this so-called tsunami in upgrading phones, both the QWERTY, as well as the smartphone, it is a positive story along with those headwinds that we've talked about.
Thomas Keys
Ric, this is Tom. I would probably add that what we have to do -- it's really incumbent upon us in the second and third quarters to remain what we call the best deal in town. We have to be easy to do business with. It's got to be real simple when you come in to explain our value proposition. We have to make sure we have inventory in the stores. We have to make sure now that we have all of our POS, all of our advertising lined up. It sounds pretty simple, but this is that heads-down thing we talked about. We have to be able to execute second and third because we do realize that seasonality plays a part to it. I would also say that we're pleased with the momentum in the second quarter, as we see it today.
J. Carter
Ric, on a final point, I think it's important to look at the full year in context versus any individual given quarter. We have a supplemental deck impact that documents historically some of the seasonality in the business. But if you step back from the quarters and you look at some of the key statistics that were thrown out, an increase in subscribers at a 33% CAGR since '05, the growth in the EBITDA, the fact that we put over 1.5 million net additions on last year. And you look at this first quarter in context, it's already 70% of consensus for 2011 from a growth standpoint. Certainly, the second and third quarters are the slowest quarters for this model, but we really need to look at the full year in context and keep things in perspective.
Richard Prentiss - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
Makes great sense. Maybe one quick follow up. With all the smartphone discussions, I agree that it really seems to be taking off. What about the cost idea? We've heard a lot of carriers starting to talk globally about the Android phones cost curve really starting to come down quarter over quarter over quarter. Where do you see the smartphones that you're able to get on the Android system headed to?
Thomas Keys
I think we'd rather not give a bottom.
Richard Prentiss - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
But is the trend safe to say that you're seeing noticeable drops as you go month by month?
Thomas Keys
More OEMs are interested in working with us. Continually, we're engaged with them now multiple times a year. We're overseas. They're over here. We have continued engagement every week with them, developing the next model, the next handsets to come out. So we feel confident that the ecosystem's going to come down and as well as every other carrier who works with them. So that the natural scale will help bring this thing down, and then, inside of our model, we think our customer base has really spoken with their wallet when it comes to Android.
Roger Linquist
And I wish to add one point to that. I think that the great expectation that we have is that once you begin to get the carriers around the world, vested and operational in 4G LTE, that you're going to see a tremendous price impact with the learning curves, operating on a world standard, one world standard, which I think is going to carry a very significant development, probably not before 2013 or '14, but when that happens, I think you're going to see something that's very, very parallel to the PC.
Richard Prentiss - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
I agree.
And we'll get our next question from Craig Moffett at Sanford Bernstein.
Craig Moffett - Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc.
Two questions. Roger, I wonder if you could return to the conversation about spectrum for a second. As you look out, when do you think you absolutely need spectrum, and when do you see spectrum exhaust, if you will? Or is it something that simply through cell splitting, you think without spectrum, you can still manage through? And then second if you could just add some more color for where your customers are coming from. You talked a lot about the smartphone numbers. Are those customers primarily coming from postpaid feature phones and as they look to upgrade, realize that the budget is beyond their means? Or are you still getting a lot of first-time customers from other prepaid carriers?
Roger Linquist
Good questions. When do you exhaust on spectrum, I think the answer to that is that the cell splitting that we intend to use is one certain feature for avoiding, shall we say, exhaust, which is a very punitive term, obviously. The fact is that I think in the new spectrum additions in the 2013, 2014 time frame would offset what we believe would be the higher cost of simply cell splitting our way out of [indiscernible] more capacity. So for me, that's a future time. I don't think there is the exhaust time or we simply don't have more capacity, but I would suspect that in a couple, 2 or 3 years, spectrum additions are going to be needed for us to continue growth not in every market, but in certainly select markets where our productivity and our penetration is the highest. And then on the customer focus or the customer side, you want to take that, Tom?
Thomas Keys
Yes. Craig, I would say that if you looked at our customer base right now through some of the survey work we've done, we probably see about 20% to 30% of our customers are new. Meaning they haven't been in wireless before, and that's probably attributable to people who add onto family plans or people who are just coming of age to get their first phone. And we become a viable alternative because of the no-contract space. Inside of the surveys we've done, we've also seen 30% to 40% of the people say that they previously had a contract. Obviously, there's a gap of about 20% to 30% in there that don't identify themselves in that way. But we think there's certainly a migration from contracted customers who find us appealing to look at, find more people consider us. And then depending upon when the contract does expire, then they give us an opportunity to convert.
Roger Linquist
Let me come back to just a point that you've asked me because really, we're converting and making a transformation to our 4G systems. So as that takes place, one of the difficulties to answering and addressing your question in a very crisp way is that there's a crossover point where the subscribers that we can put on -- and this is with VOLTE, this is with voice and data -- it gives us the opportunity to refarm our CDMA spectrum. So it's really the cost of the handset that's going to be a fundamental driver in our ability to make that transformation earlier rather than later.
And next, we'll go to Phil Cusick with JPMorgan.
Philip Cusick - JP Morgan Chase & Co
First, Roger, can I just follow up on the VOLTE comment. When do you expect to deploy that?
Roger Linquist
Well, there's a -- let me be very clear. In testing, we fully expect to be testing before the end of the year. Commercial deployment is going to be a 2012 event. But for us, it's very important that we begin taking advantage of this network, 4G, for voice customers, as well as data. So we will probably be in the leading edge not because we want to be there, but because we think it's in our very best interest to have this transformation begin as the volume on 4G LTE grows.
Philip Cusick - JP Morgan Chase & Co
Right. And to that end, how do you expect the sort of retail price of 4G handsets to go this year? Right now we've got one at $300, that's the older. We've got the Android at $400. Could we see this sort of sub-$200 by the end of the year?
Roger Linquist
I don't think that you can see that this year. I do very well think you will see that next year.
Philip Cusick - JP Morgan Chase & Co
Okay. And then if I can just do one more. I've been trying to think about the sort of skin in the game that customers have. We used to talk about this a lot. And I would think now, customers are walking out with sort of an average of $100 to $200 in the game, whereas a couple of years ago it was maybe $50 to $100. Can you give some numbers around that, maybe just qualitatively, if not the exact numbers?
Thomas Keys
Phil, are you really talking about what the consumer's paying out the door for the handset with airtime or just the handsets?
Philip Cusick - JP Morgan Chase & Co
Yes. Sort of like when people walk out the door, they used to walk out for $50 or $100 for the low-end handset and the free month upfront. And today, I've got to think it's much more. And it's probably one of the drivers why your churn is coming down over time. Can help us think about that?
Thomas Keys
One of the real differences with Wireless for All is somebody is paying their first bill at the time of handset acquisition, whereas before, they got a free month worth of airtime, and 28 days later they got their first text message. And they were getting trained in to how to pay an electronic wireless bill. So we actually get a better conversation at the counter by having to charge for the first month because now people understand what they're buying. They understand the value proposition for 40, 50 or 60. So they walk away feeling better about themselves and better about the service. We finally get a much more satisfied customer when they pay their second bill because they understand exactly what they got for the first month. So what we did with Wireless for All, we reduced the price of the handset. So net-net out the door, it's not that much different on some handsets when you look at the airtime with handset pricing. But also as we've moved to more smartphones, away from more lower-end buyers of QWERTYs and flips, we're going to find that price is substantially higher based upon the greater features in the handset. On average, you might find the customer out the door anywhere between $99 and $179 today depending upon the handset they chose.
Roger Linquist
Yes, and as it relates to the question on LTE handsets. I stand by that as a wholesale pricing, that's what I assume you were talking about. But with our ability to promote, particularly with a mail-in-rebate or MIR as we would call it, we certainly will be at the $200 level below by the end of this year. Certainly, we'll have some products going out in that range.
We'll take our next question from John Hodulik at UBS.
John Hodulik - UBS Investment Bank
Guys, from the slides, some of the things that stand out, I think was the 16% upgrade rate and then the noticeable improvement you saw sequentially in year-over-year in churn. Can you first talk about where you think that upgrade rate will top out? And given the progress you've made in churn and how obviously it's correlated with the smartphones, could we see continued acceleration in ARPU as long as that upgrade rate remains high? And then maybe a quick follow-up on sales question. I mean, I know it's early, but do you have a sense that the churn in the smartphone base is meaningfully less than what you got in sort of the overall base?
J. Carter
John, I think there is a couple of things to look at here. When you look at the upgrade trends, 2009 basically 1/3 of our subscribers upgraded their phones. In 2010, half of them did, which implies an average life of six months. You have an acceleration in 1Q '11 over 1Q '10, 16% versus 14%. We don't have the crystal ball telling us exactly where these percentages are going to go, but some of the fundamental drivers of why the first quarter is a stronger quarter for us also typically results in a higher upgrade percentage. And you can see that in some of the historical patterns. So based on historical, we would expect the upgrades to dip down in the second and third quarters as part of the normal seasonality and then move back up in the fourth quarter. But the smartphones really are the driver for what is happening in the first quarter of '11 versus the increase in the first quarter of '10 to that incremental 2%. Tom, do you want to add something there?
Thomas Keys
Yes. I want to add that the theory or the case behind smartphone and smartphone churn customers is that there is a 4-for-1 utility that people derive from the device. Its home voice, mobile voice, mobile broadband and then a fixed mobile convergence in the home. So we think there is a greater dependency by that customer who doesn't have to have 2 to 3 different applications and/or devices who could use our service and get that 4-for-1 utility. So the theory would really tell you that potentially there's a greater churn metric for smartphone customers than feature customers have shown us in the past.
John Hodulik - UBS Investment Bank
And do you expect all that to continue to manifest itself in ARPU? I mean, obviously, return to growth, we got the 1.5%, which is great quarter-to-quarter change. But with all the new smartphones and the faster upgrade rate, would you guys expect to, can see that ARPU growth accelerate as you move throughout the year?
J. Carter
I think that our public position has been that what we're seeing is a large amount of stability with ARPU. I mean, certainly, there are positives with smartphone great plans being on a higher mix, but you need to balance that against we are increasing family plan. The BOGO, which Tom talked about being 15% of our first quarter activity, you had to have a family plan to do that. So that increased penetration with family plan. There are offsets. We're very encouraged with the trends that we're seeing in ARPU, but we still like to talk about the business being very supportive from an ARPU standpoint. I think your final question really related to churn, and could churn be lower on smartphones. You've got to remember that we just really started with the Androids in December of last year. And we're certainly seeing a great deal of momentum with the Androids. But it really is too early to comment on any particular differences with the base on those phones.
And next, we'll take a question from Jonathan Chaplin at Credit Suisse.
Jonathan Chaplin - Crédit Suisse AG
A couple of quick ones. First, with CapEx moving higher to deal with all of the capacity utilization from smartphones, what should we be thinking as sort of the trend for CapEx in 2012 once you've got the LTE spend behind you? And can you give us a little bit more granularity on where the spend is going? Is all of the usage based CapEx going into LTE, or are you adding capacity in CDMA as well? And then secondly, just switching over to CCU, how much of the increase in CCU was LTE-related? What I'm trying to get a sense from is whether there's a prospect of CCU beginning to sort of stabilize at these levels, given that the bulk of the LTE percent is behind you. Assuming that the upgrade rate starts to level out, can we start seeing some leverage on the CCU line as ARPU grows?
J. Carter
Let me answer the CPU question, touch base on a couple of CapEx issues and then, turn it over to Roger for further comment. Let's start with the CPU. The largest drivers in the increase in CPU year-over-year were the upgrades and the fact that we have Wireless for All with regulatory fees being included in CPU. And let's talk about the regulatory CPUs. When we launched Wireless for All in January of 2010, we did a forced migration of 30%. You heard us comment today that base, we now have 90% of our base on Wireless for All. And we've also commented in the past that our regulatory fees are slightly less than $1. So you could do the math to show the incremental pressure on CPU, which is roughly half of the CPU increase is related solely to the penetration of the base for Wireless for All. So that pretty much is where the run rate is. The second factor impacting CPU is upgrades. And you saw an increase in the gross volume of upgrades Q1 '11 over Q1 '12 as we've talked about. But as Phil Cusick pointed out, we also have seen an increase in sales price of the phones, and we've seen higher subsidies, as we've commented, as we promote the Androids. So that was the second most significant part of the CPU increase. The LTE expansion, again remember, we're laying systems and putting OpEx in well before we even launched the markets. And then as we scale, you'll see efficiencies and scale benefits come out of it. But that was the least significant part of the CPU equation. Hope that helps to answer the question there. On CapEx...
Jonathan Chaplin - Crédit Suisse AG
It sounds like -- just on CCU before you move on to CapEx, that you should expect CCU to stabilize here and then come down as subscribers continue to grow, when you sort of put all of those 3 elements together. Is that right?
J. Carter
Yes, I think when you look longer term, you should see some continued scale benefits, as we continue to grow the base. And we've also talked about as we fully migrate to LTE, how efficient that is from a CapEx and an OpEx standpoint, given the much more fixed cost structure, which will allow scaling. So yes, we believe that a lot of the initial factors regarding the CPU increase year-over-year have been already baked into the run rates. Going on to CapEx. I want to clarify one thing. When we gave the color on the increase in guidance, we said it was really due to 2 factors, not just the capacity being driven by the Androids, but it was also being driven by the record subscriber performance that we experienced in the first quarter. Having a growth rate of 725,000 net subscribers in a quarter, definitely early in the year, pressures the CapEx so there are 2 factors there. We don't really breakout a separate LTE spend. But I think consistent with prior discussions, we have said that LTE is less than half of the spend. That does remain true. And then I think your final point was what would we see, from a trajectory standpoint, relating to CapEx. I think that really depends on a variety of factors. How does our growth continue for the balance of this year into next year? We are launching many more Android smartphones in the tail end of the year. So what is the uptake on that as our percentage of gross additions? Even with a higher price for those phones, does it increase substantially over the third? Those are things that can potentially impact us. Roger, do you want to comment a little bit?
Roger Linquist
There's always between 10% and 20% of our CapEx that's going into upgrading our, let me call it core, which in this case is probably more true this year, as we begin to get the redundancy in our LTE system. We're building out Atlanta as being a second Center for MME and bringing in additional OS systems to control. So I think Braxton's comment is correct, but there's also a pretty significant upgrade in what I would call the core, which we used to call the MSCs.
Jonathan Chaplin - Crédit Suisse AG
So with CapEx -- somewhere around half of CapEx being spent on LTE, can CapEx come down to sort of $600 million in 2012?
J. Carter
Yes. Again, I think that depends on what the growth rate is going to be and on what development we see in the LTE ecosystem, and there's multiple factors. So we're not really looking forward to '12 at this point giving it to you.
And we'll take our last question from Will Power at Robert Baird.
William Power - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated
So I guess kind of following up on the higher net adds and rising usage, can you kind of update us on the network quality statistics, blocked calls, dropped calls? Just as you think about how the network is performing under kind of the higher stress. And then, I guess, the second question, Roger, you had talked about LTE for All. What's the timing for that? Is that more of a 2012 event, and is that really just a function of pushing more LTE handsets as those become available?
Roger Linquist
Let me take the last question first, I think, then I'll begin it over. The key to the LTE in our minds is developing this what we call ecosystem. You can translate that to infrastructure, but the key is the handsets. And we look to broadening the ability to buy beyond Qualcomm chipsets. There are other parties who are selling chipsets that could provide us the window for early, shall we say, price reduction in handset because we believe that you simply have to, on a wholesale basis, get down to the $200 or below mark before you can begin to make real progress. And I think we see that's certainly going to be a 2012 event, but it's probably going to be a last half 2012 event. So really 2013 it will be a year where we think that LTE will come into its own. So it's a matter of getting it developed in our band, which is critical for us. We wanted to develop it in narrow bands. So all the way down to 1.4 as different than 5x5 and 10x10. And obviously, that gives us an opportunity to utilize it across all of our networks. So I would say that the ecosystem is probably going to be in high gear by the end of 2012. And along the way, were going to do whatever we can to send customers to begin to adopt and embrace LTE as their system of choice.
J. Carter
Thank you again for participating on today's call.
Roger Linquist
We don't give blocks and drops and we haven't. We feel that we're well within our industry guidelines as we have always been. What this has caused us to do though is both compression, conditioning and other features to help us as we have seen this growth. The growth is still young, and many of the tools that we're using to manage this growth and data is under development. So we feel good about it now, but it is something that has really come out of the late 2010. And we feel like we have it under control.
J. Carter
Thank you again for participating on today's call. We appreciate your interest and support of MetroPCS, and we look forward to our next quarter of continued progress. Operator?
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the MetroPCS Communications First Quarter 2011 Conference Call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect, and have a pleasant day.
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Parry Aftab, executive director of stopcyberbullying.org, speaks to students at Grace Christian School recently about cyberbullying.
To learn more about the 2013 International Stop Cyberbullying Youth Summit Nov. 9 in Charlottetown or to register, visit www.stopcyberbullying.org.
Parry Aftab is confident that youth can come up with clever and effective ways to combat cyberbullying.
She is in the process of rounding up some young, deep thinkers from right across the province.
Aftab, the executive director of stopcyberbullying.org — a volunteer organization dedicated to online safety — is hitting P.E.I. schools to recruit thought leaders who are able to think outside of the box while also discussing cyberbullying issues with hundreds of students.
She has a special purpose in gathering together a good crop of thoughtful students: the 2013 International Stop Cyberbullying Youth Summit to be held in Charlottetown on Nov. 9.
The handpicked Prince Edward Island students will be among some 400 students in total from grades 4 to 12 joined by about 200 adults at the youth summit.
The students, stresses Aftab, are the ones to turn to for answers to deal with the immense harm taking place in P.E.I. and around the world through cyberbullying — a growing practice Aftab describes as using digital technology as a weapon to hurt someone else.
Industry leaders, including high-level representatives from Facebook, Microsoft and Google, will be attending the summit in the capital city.
Barbara Coloroso, one of the leading experts in the world on bullying, is waiving her speaking fee to participate.
Sharon Rosenfeld, who created Victims of Violence after notorious child killer Clifford Olson murdered her son, is also taking part in the youth summit.
A host of other stakeholders, from health-care professionals to law enforcement, will also be among the diverse delegates.
The key participants, however, will be students, says Aftab. This group, coming from a good cross-section of backgrounds and cultures, will be front and centre.
"So when I turn to a sixth grader and say 'What can we get from Facebook that will make my kids safer?' and the kids give me answers, those answers are really relevant and they work because the kids are the ones in the midst of all of this,'' she says.
"So I am reaching out to the kids who are very good at facilitating ideas, thinking, brainstorming and I'm giving them all of the experts they could possibly need to pick from.''
Aftab, who lives in Charlottetown with her husband Allan McCullough, created the StopCyberbullying Coalition to help address cyberbullying and digital abuse issues. Members include Facebook, AOL, Microsoft, Disney and Yahoo!
She says parents need to learn how to recognize cyberbullying and also to appreciate the pain that it causes. Youth need to be taught not to cross the line into cyberbullying when using cell phones or other digital devices.
"We have to stop this,'' says Aftab.
"We've had two serious cases of sextortion that have occurred here on the Island up in the Westisle area and sextortion leads to suicide faster than any other type of digital abuse.''
Sextortion is a type of exploitation that involves coercion to extort sexual favours from the victim. It is also a type of blackmail in which sexual images or videos are used to force sexual favours from the victim.
Aftab, who has spearheaded youth summits at the U.S. Senate, is optimistic the 2013 International Stop Cyberbullying Youth Summit next month in Charlottetown will lead to constructive change.
"At the end of the day, we will have a written action plan,'' says Aftab.
"We need to focus on parents and teaching them more about these issues. We need to get the word out on awareness. We need to give the kids a helpline online (that is) live kid supported.''
"So it will be a list of what we need to do and then they (summit participants) will also identify the stakeholders that need to be involved to make that happen,'' she adds.
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Previously released images of Marvel Select's upcoming War Machine action figure were entirely obscured, save for one photo of James "Rhodey" Rhodes' maskless face, revealing the lovely visage of Mr. Cheadle. Aside from that, the shadowed photograph basically made it look like a Don Cheadle action figure with a unicorn cannon forehead.
Things are starting to make more sense now, however, as Marvelous News revealed some new images of the War Machine action figure in the prototype phase. Which is to say, uncolored, but fully revealed otherwise. Given that the hero's color scheme is already pretty subdued in its final form, this is offers a very good idea of what the figure is going to ultimately look like.
Personally, I'm pretty impressed. I know I wasn't wild about Marvel Select's upcoming Deadpool prototype, but I think they've done a bang-up job on this sculpt. I'm a bit worried about War Machine oversaturation, but if every tie-in product has this level of coolness, I can get on board.


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Organised by Business in the Community (BITC), it aims to help firms "cope with the stresses their employees face in the modern environment".
BITC's Denise Cranston said absenteeism costs the UK economy £13bn each year.
That works out at £600 a year for every employee.
"This is an incredible drain and some very simple steps can be taken by employers to reduce this burden," she said.
Experts in the area of occupational health provision and employment law will address the conference on Thursday.
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Sanjeev Kumar was a great actor in Bollywood with unparalleled acting skills of par excellence.He had exceptional capabilities of voice control which was effectively used to glorify his characters.Modulated voice control,an expressive face which could reflect all the nine emotions brilliantly, natural gestures and movements adequate to the concerned situations was all widely appreciated.He was not generally called for acting simple roles like dancing with the heroines and chasing them around trees singing romantic love songs.He was sought for presenting characters which needed much efforts for creation.He also loved to act in films which his role demanded much acting skills and took them as a challenge.He was able to play many characters with subtlety and with indefinable quality to the amazement of movie goers.
Sanjeev Kumar's real name was Harihar Jariwala and was born in Bombay on 9th July 1938 in a traditional Gujarati Family.The family hailed from Surat and was settled in Bombay.After undergoing a diploma course at Filmalaya acting school he started acting in films.Before that he had an appearance in the film 'Alibaba and 40 thieves'.
He had a small role in 'Hum Hindusthani' and afterwards got leading roles in many films. As an actor he was well praised for the film 'Sunghursh(68) from which his acting career got a boost.Seeta Aur Geetha and Manchali also received much praise.'Khilona'
was a film which earned him much applause as an efficient actor.The movie had melodious songs and the presence of actress Mumtaz in it was nice. The miserable sorrows of his character in Khilona earned pity..Then followed another fine appearance in the film 'Parichay' in which he carved his character brilliantly appropriate. .Parichay(72) and Koshish(72) enhanced his fame as a wonderful acting talent.In the film 'Koshish' as a deaf and dumb man he presented marvelous acting.Jaya Bhaduri on the counter part had also acted tremendously well.To convey all the grief and grievances the mute characters could employ only gestures and expressions.It was really a challenge and in several scenes the audience were moved with sorrow of those characters.
An actor should have the ability to observe the society in a perceptive manner to grab the mannerism of different people in varied situations.Then only they can enact in diversified roles and sequences effectively.The spectators in cinema halls are aware that what is happening on the screen is unreal.But the actor utilizing his talents when present the characters with natural emotions,gestures and movements the viewer gets a real feeling.Sanjeev Kumar was blessed with these kind of abilities.To induce such an effect and impact several factors are needed such as appealing story and screenplay, selection of beautiful locations,better scenic arrangements and an ideal director.All these factors were given prominence by 'Gulzar' and Sanjeev Kumar's association with Gulzar proved to be a boon for film lovers.
'Gulzar' is a wonderful writer,lyricist and director who created fantastic movies which were all admired by the society.Gulzar under his direction and creativity made nine films with Sanjeev Kumar in the lead roles.As a writer Gulzar excelled very well and direction wise also his films were well presented in all factors such as
story,dialogues,songs,location and finally he included actors and actresses most suited to the characters.Sanjeev Kumar could vivify the characters as per the expectation of writer-director 'Gulzar' and so films like 'Mausam(75),Aandhi(75),Angoor(81),Namkeen(82) etc are all super creations in every respect.
Sanjeev Kumar took the challenge to take nine different roles in one film 'Naya Din Naya Raat(74) and presented nicely.This film was the remake of Tamil Film 'Nava Rathiri' in which Sivaji Ganesan handled all those roles successfully well.
In the eighties Vidhata(82) and Hero(83) were two films which got appreciation.He had the chance to act in Sathyajit Ray's film 'Shatraj ke Khiladi'(77) and in a Punjabi film 'Fauji Chacha'.(80)
Sanjeev Kumar did not hesitate to accept older characters and side roles also.As an artist he longed for characters with succulent essence for enabling him to utilize his acting ability.So it was not difficult for him to act as Jaya Bhaduri's lover in Koshish and Anamika and her father's role in 'Parichay'.He was Jaya Bhaduri's father in law in 'Sholay'.He acted perfectly well in older roles in 'Aandhi' Mausam.Trisul etc.He superseded his co-stars in multi-starred films
with regard to performance.
His conspicuous appearance as Dwaraka N Prasad in 'Sunghursh',humble husband in 'Aandhi' Business man in 'Trisul' Swamy Rahasyanand in 'Naya Din Naya Raat' Thakur Baldev Singh in 'Sholay' Deaf and dumb man
in 'Koshish' The poor Vijay in 'Khilona' Gerulal, the truck driver in 'Numkeen' etc etc were all diversified roles which ignited his acting prowess.
Shikkar,Khilona,Koshish,Aandhi,Sholay,Mausam,Arjun Pandit,Zindagi,Pati Patni aur Woh,Devta,Trisul,Angoor,Vidhata are some of his very best films.
We have to appreciate the very nicely talented heroines who acted with him to make those films a treat for the eyes and mind.Vaijayanthimala,Malasinha,Waheeda Rehman,Sharmila Tagore,Shabana Aazmi,Rakhee,Mausami Chatterjee,Jaya Bhaduri,Smitha Patil etc deserves much admiration.
Sanjeev Kumar left this world on 6th November 1985 at the age of 47 because of heart disease He was a bachelor.Some of his films were released after his death.He was such an acting talent of sublimity that no film goers will ever forget him.
Some of his films and heroine there in:-
Aandhi -Suchitra Sen
Aap Ki Kasam -Mumtaz
Seeta Aur Geetha -Hema Malini
Khilona -Mumtaz
Mausam -Sharmila Tagore
Silsila -JayaBhaduri
Devta -ShabanaAazmi
Shikkar -Ashaparekh
Nishan -Nazima
Sunghursh -Vaijayanthimala
Thumareliye -Vidyasinha
Nauker -Jaya Bhaduri
Destak -Rehna Sulthan
Shaandar -Sharmila Tagore
Griha Pravesh -Sharmila Tagore
Pati Patni Aur woh -Vidya Sinha
Naunital -Indrani Mukherjee
Anamika -Jaya Bhaduri
Angoor -Mausami Chatterjee
Anubhav -Tanuja
Man Mandir -Wahida Rehman
Hamare Thumare -Rakhee
Rivaz -Mala Sinha
Chanda aur Bijali -Padmini
Iman Dharam -Rekha
Ek Paheli -Tanuja
Rusvai -Mausami Chatterjee
Charitraheen -Sharmila Tagore
Lakhon ki Baad -Anitha Raj
Do Ladkiyan -Mala Sinha
Sawal -Waheeda Rehman
Mano Ranjan -Zeenat Aman
Priya -Tanuja
Dur Aur Manzil -Reshma
Uljahan -Sulakshana Pandit
Sachai -Sadhna
OOnch Neech Beech -Shabana Aazmi
Night in Calcutta -Simi
Naya Din Naya Raat -Jaya Bhaduri
Koshish -Jaya Bhaduri
Kanch ki Deewar -Smitha Patil
Gauri -Nutan
Be Rahem -Mala Sinha
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Mike Prisuta's Poll
NFL Power Poll
December 5, 2012
THE POINT: To rank each of the NFL's 32 teams based on performance, perception and potential rather than merely by record.
THE PANEL: Our 10-man committee consists of:
Joe Bendel, 970 ESPN, Steelers Radio Network; Tim Benz, 105.9 The X, Steelers Radio Network; Gerry Dulac, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 970 ESPN, Steelers Radio Network; Rick Gosselin, Dallas Morning News; Jeff Legwold, Denver Post; Cole Pepper, Studio Host Jaguars Radio Network; Mike Prisuta, WDVE, 970 ESPN, Steelers Radio Network; Jon Saraceno, USA Today; David Todd, 970 ESPN, Steelers Nation Radio; Matt Williamson, ESPN.com.
THE PROCESS: Each panelist ranks the teams from No. 1 to No. 32. Teams receive one point for their spot in the rankings (the No. 15 team gets 15 points, etc.). An aggregate score is compiled from the 10 ballots and the teams are stacked in reverse order, with the lowest score achieving the No. 1 ranking and the highest score checking in at No. 32.
THIS WEEK'S POLL: And then there were two.
The Houston Texans retain a share of the top spot this week but have been joined at the top of the heap by the New England Patriots.
Both the Texans and the Patriots received five first-place votes.
This might not be settled until the Super Bowl.
The Denver Broncos are also charging hard and have climbed up another spot to No. 4.
At the other end, Kansas City's emotional victory over the Carolina Panthers wasn't enough to get the Chiefs out of the basement.
THE STEELERS' STATUS: A big win in Baltimore was enough to get the Steelers back into the Top 10 at No. 10. The Steelers' will take on our panel's No. 23 team when the San Diego Chargers visit Heinz Field.
No. 1-Houston Texans (5)-20
-New England Patriots (5)-20
No. 3-Atlanta Falcons-31
No. 4-Denver Broncos-35
No. 5-San Francisco 49ers-52
No. 6-Green Bay Packers-65
No. 7-New York Football Giants-84
No. 8-Baltimore Ravens-86
No. 9-Chicago Bears-88
No. 10-PITTSBURGH STEELERS-96
No. 11-Indianapolis Colts-111
No. 12-Seattle Seahawks-116
No. 13-Cincinnati Bengals-119
No. 14-Washington Redskins-147
No. 15-Tampa Bay Buccaneers-151
No. 16-New Orleans Saints-155
No. 17-Dallas Cowboys-164
No. 18-Minnesota Vikings-173
No. 19-Miami Dolphins-196
No. 20-Detroit Lions-199
No. 21-St. Louis Rams-206
No. 22-Buffalo Bills-225
No. 23-San Diego Chargers-237
No. 24-Cleveland Browns-238
No. 25-New York Jets-249
No. 26-Tennessee Titans-262
-Carolina Panthers-262
No. 28-Arizona Cardinals-273
No. 29-Philadelphia Eagles-286
No. 30-Oakland Raiders-297
No. 31-Jacksonville Jaguars-307
No. 32-Kansas City Chiefs-312