The transaction would result in Leap acquiring 10 MHz of additional AWS spectrum in Phoenix, AZ and Houston, Galveston and Bryan-College Station, TX to supplement the spectrum Leap currently operates in those markets, among others.

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College lecturer Nigel Bryan said it was "great that everyone has the confidence in their abilities to carry out such a prestigious project".

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According to Mr Bryan, who runs the college's architectural stone conservation course, the structure is sound but work is needed to slow its rate of decay.

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"It turns out that currently about 80 percent of the breeding population that we have is on private land, " says Bryan Watts, a biologist at the College of William and Mary, who knows Bowers property well.

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