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My minutes quickly disap- tually coming forward. By the time you year or so has been such fun. And I still peared, although I only placed a couple read about it in The Wall Street Journal, can’t believe I’m just back from England of phone calls in the UK. However, you know the deal is actually already and France where I went for a little R&R the data remained. I was unable to get pretty much done. So who will it be? The with the family. Talk about telecom any customer service help, and I im- usual suspects? American Tower? Crown sticker shock! Taking a CDMA phone mediately tossed the idea of traditional Castle International? It’s probably too from the United States GSM phone calls out the window and big of a deal for SBA Communications, to the United Kingdom scrambled to fi nd a good VoIP client for I would imagine, given what limited un- had a number of really Android. I did, and I was quickly able to derstanding I have of the fi nancial world,