Carriers are willing to offer a discount because they can lock customers into multi-year service agreements.
Mr Barnett said the report had assumed every officer would complete their full 30-35 year service.
In both cases, those prices come with the condition of a two-year service agreement.
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Wireless service operators typically subsidize the cost of smartphones, offering discounts to consumers to lock them into two-year service contracts.
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Both programs are similar to T-Mobile's Value plans, with the biggest difference being that America's fourth largest carrier requires a two-year service agreement.
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If past practice is any guide, the company that produced the planes would also be relied upon for maintenance over their expected 40-year service life.
In the U.S., the device is generally free at wireless carriers when customers sign a two-year service contract, and supply was constrained for much of the period.
Starting today, Lucid2 by LG will be available online at www.verizonwireless.com and will be available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores in the coming weeks for free with a new two-year service agreement.
For those in the audience enamored with the iPhone -- especially those willing to look past the lack of 3G and requisite 2-year service agreement -- there's really only one x-factor left: the touchscreen keyboard.
Additionally, year-on-year service revenues were positively impacted by growth in revenues from providing handset insurance services to customers, which were insourced in the fourth quarter of 2010 and reconnection fees, which were introduced in the third quarter of 2011.
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Like all Mobilicity devices, it does not come with a handset tab credit check, nor does it come with a contract to lock a customer into a multi-year service plan, as is often the case with Canada's incumbent carriers.
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With the iPhone 4S jumping off the shelves, and buzz about the iPhone 5 continuing to mount, no one spends much time talking or thinking about the lowly 3GS, which you can get for free with a two-year service contract.
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The Peace Corps pays down 15 percent on all Federal Perkins Loans for each year of service, after the third year, participants are eligible to write off 20 percent of all Perkins loan debt per year, says Jim Wolfston, founder of CollegeNET.
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Payouts will also be cut from four weeks' pay for each year of service, to two.
Under the provisional new deal, civil servants would receive one month's salary for every year of service.
In the past year the service has been the subject of three investigations following allegations of financial irregularities.
Continental and United serve more than 144 million passengers per year with service to 370 destinations in 59 countries.
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The former state senator, assemblyman and Kean administration official qualified for retirement in 2006, his 25th year of service.
Another study found that Britain's two-year national service (which ended in 1960) cut later earnings by between 5% and 8%.
Although he was discharged from the army in 1941 after a year of service, he immediately reenlisted after learning that Pearl Harbor had been bombed.
And although the company intends to expand to 20 cities by the end of the year, service focuses on a handful of densely populated urban areas.
In the past year, service on the existing metro line has become more frequent, and a road connecting the complex to a nearby highway was finished.
Meanwhile, higher earners will receive a fixed amount of "protected" pension for each year of service, topped up by the proceeds from their money purchase account.
Bassoul also applied a salve, offering severance packages he claims exceeded both the law and Middleby's policy of one week of pay for every year of service.
Each member of the community must do a year of service in the programme, acting as a guide or helping to maintain the traditionally-built adobe cabins where visitors stay.
The Dasher, which is in its 25th year of service, provides the opportunity for students to spend time at sea, both on sea weekends, and longer deployments during university breaks.
Under the provisionally-agreed new deal, civil servants would receive one month's salary for each year of service, capped at 12 months for compulsory redundancy and 21 months for voluntary redundancy.
And at Zhuhai, COMAC and Eastern Air Lines, which hopes to start flying late next year with service between Miami and Latin America, announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding.
They've committed themselves to 400 hours each year in service to others, mentoring at-risk youth, showing them that -- those youth that if they put their hearts into it, they, too, can succeed.
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