At the other end of the spend spectrum, you will find Britain's cheapest root canal treatment (now there is a pleasant way to spend an hour or two) in Glasgow, where it costs £185.
Most of my preparation time was spent characterizing spectra and calibrating mass spectrometers both at the University of California, Irvine, and with Spicer at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio.
Nevertheless, the high costs currently force researchers to make a choice between two extreme ends of the research spectrum: spending the available money on screening many individuals with a few (e.g., twenty) microsatellites or on screening a few individuals with NGS.
T-Mobile spent $4.2 billion for spectrum licenses in the Federal Communications Commission's Advanced Wireless Services auction, which ended last month, and will spend an additional $2.7 billion to upgrade its network for faster data services.
Which means Vodafone Limited will have spent £6.3bn on interest by the end of the term – as much as it spent buying the spectrum in the first place.
This means the government is in effect giving back to Vodafone half the money it spent on 3G spectrum.
Vodafone can get back from the taxman a quarter of the money paid in interest, and a quarter of the cash it originally spent on the spectrum.
Last week, Google scored a victory in an F.C.C. auction of airwaves after Verizon Wireless agreed to spend $4.74 billion on spectrum that will be available for any legal device.
With communications companies in Europe still bemoaning the billions they spent on wireless spectrum auctions, and American companies still sorting out the effects of the telecommunications meltdown, Telecom Italia's experience in Brazil demonstrates that telecommunications remorse knows no borders.
If those data minutes don't start climbing fast, carriers will have no chance of recouping the tens of billions of dollars they've spent on radio spectrum for the data.
