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Dropped-call rate

The dropped-call rate is one of the key performance indicators (KPI) used by the network operators to assess the performance of their networks.


1933 Outer Banks hurricane

The storm dropped heavy rainfall across the region, including 1.1 in (27 mm) in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and about 3 in (75 mm) in 15 hours in Gagetown, New Brunswick; there, the rains flooded roads and damaged crops.

1990 in motoring

The ancient 1.0 and 1.3 A-Series engines were dropped in favour of the new 16-valve K-Series units, with a choice of 1.1 and 1.4 litres.

2008 3M Performance 400

Darlington Raceway announced that next year's 500 mile race in May would be renamed the Southern 500, reviving the name of the traditional Labor Day weekend race that ran from 1950 through 2003, and moved to November in 2004 before being dropped as part of the settlement of the Ferko lawsuit.

440th Operations Group

The 440th TCG dropped paratroops of the 101st Airborne Division near Carentan on the Cotentin Peninsula of France on 6 June 1944 and by transporting gasoline, ammunition, food, and other supplies to the same area on 7 June, being awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation for completing these missions during the Invasion of Normandy.

Alyssa Chia

Chia dropped out of Beijing Film Academy because the company in Taiwan called her back and she had a great attachment to her family.

André Sardet

He attended a mechanical technical engineering course at the polytechnics' Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra (ISEC), but dropped out in order to pursue his career in music.

Arthur Stark

William Sclater, Dr Stark's co-author of The Birds of South Africa, died in 1944 from injuries sustained from a V-1 flying bomb dropped in London.

Baphumelele Children's Home

As more and more children were dropped at her doorstep, she took this as a sign from God that forming a Children's Home was to be her work on Earth.

Box Television

In common with other Box Television channels, Q was originally a jukebox channel, where music video selections made were by the viewers using premium rate phone lines; however this element was dropped in 2004.

Breakfast with the Beatles

Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Pete Best, Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono have all been guests on the longest-running version of the show (30 years) in Los Angeles, which was dropped in 2006 by KLSX-FM, but picked up by 95.5 KLOS in November 2006.

Cheap Thrills

The cover was drawn by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb after the band's original cover idea, a picture of the group naked in bed together, was dropped by the record company.

Cold Sunday

This mass of cold air was so strong that the temperature at Mequon, Wisconsin, dropped to −40 °F (−40 °C).

Danny Amendola

In the aftermath of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Amendola pledged on his Twitter feed to donate to a recovery fund $100 for every pass he catches during the 2013 season, and $200 for every dropped pass.

Dante Arthurs

It was outlined in media reports and later confirmed by Western Australia Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan and the Department of Public Prosecutions, that Arthurs was in fact arrested for the assault, however charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence and incorrect police interviewing techniques.

David Lord

However, the airborne forces that dropped on 17 September were not aware that the 9th SS and 10th SS Panzer divisions were also near Arnhem for rest and refit.

Deep South

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee fared well in the Deep South in 2008 Republican primaries, losing only one state (South Carolina) while running (he had dropped out of the race before the Mississippi primary).

Drew Bundini Brown

Brown, who was born in Midway, Florida, and raised in nearby Sanford, Florida, dropped out of junior high school after the eighth grade.

Fred Lorenzen

He came back in 1970, driving a Dodge Daytona prepared by Ray Fox in the World 600(now the Coca-Cola 600), but dropped out while leading on lap 252 of 400 due to engine issues, running in a few more events that year, including substituting for LeeRoy Yarbrough in the Junior Johnson #98 Ford Torino Talladega in that year's Southern 500, as Yarbrough had a prior Indy car commitment.

George Grieve

On Robespierre's fall Grieve was arrested at Amiens, and was taken to Versailles, where twenty-two depositions were taken against him, but the prosecution was dropped.

German submarine U-542

She was sunk on 28 November 1943 north of Madeira by depth charges dropped from a British Vickers Wellington of No. 179 Squadron RAF.

Giancarlo Giammetti

As detailed in the movie Valentino: The Last Emperor, Giammetti dropped out of architecture school and began looking after the business side of Valentino’s young high-fashion enterprise.

Graymail

She was charged under section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1989, but the case was dropped when the prosecution declined to offer evidence.

History of the Teller–Ulam design

On November 1, 1952, the Teller-Ulam configuration was tested in the "Ivy Mike" shot at an island in the Enewetak atoll, with a yield of 10.4 megatons (over 450 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II).

In Car Stereo

Following the failure of their previous album and follow-up singles, the group was dropped by Epic Records.

Indian cricket team in England in 2011

In winning the series by more than two clear matches, England took India's place at the top of the ICC Test Championship, while India dropped to third place.

Jack Tramiel

As prices dropped and the market matured, the monochrome (green text on black screen) PET was at a disadvantage in the market when compared to machines like the Apple II and Atari 800, which offered color graphics and could be hooked to a television as an inexpensive display.

Jackie Warner

The episode aired on May 6, and by May 9 Gatorade, a major sponsor of the show, dropped its sponsorship and publicly criticized the comments about a breast cancer survivor made on the program.

James Davison

After the Denver round he was dropped by the team for fellow Aussie Michael Patrizi.

Joan Carter Conway

The charges were later dropped by State's Attorney Patricia Jessamy.

Kamran Akmal

In the 2nd Test match on the 2009–10 tour of Australia, Akmal dropped four catches in the Australian innings, three of those coming from Michael Hussey.

King's Park F.C.

The fortunes of the club were hit further in 1941 when a Luftwaffe Heinkel III dropped a single Hermann bomb on Forthbank - one of only German two bombs that hit the town during the war, and was believed to be merely one that had been finally successfully dislodged by the crew after becoming "stuck" in its bomb cradle when its payload had been dropped elsewhere (a not uncommon problem for bomber crews during the war).

Koko Kondo

In 1955, both appeared on the popular television program This Is Your Life where they were placed in the uncomfortable position of meeting with Captain Robert A. Lewis, copilot of the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

KOZL-TV

In 1986, ABC dropped its affiliation with KDEB and moved it to three-year old KSPR.

KYQQ

Sometime in 1990, KWKL dropped its Oldies format and stunted with David Bowie's "Changes" and Bananarama's "I Heard a Rumour" repeatedly and a drop between the songs saying "All Good Things Must Come To An End, Out With The Old" referring to the demise of KWKL's Oldies format.

Lloyd Banks

After being dropped by Interscope Records in 2009, Lloyd Banks announced on Friday, August 13, 2010 on MTV News that EMI Label Services has signed a deal with 50 Cent’s label, G-Unit Records, in which EMI will distribute and promote releases on the G-Unit roster in North America including Lloyd Banks third album H.F.M. 2 (Hunger for More 2).

Manabu Miyazaki

As a teenager and college student, Miyazaki became involved in the left-wing politics of the Japanese Communist Party but dropped out in 1969 to pursue an underworld life, including running his family's yakuza-connected demolition business.

Mary Knight Dunlap

In 1926, she began a four-year degree in veterinary medicine at Colorado A&M; however, she dropped out after her second year.

McDonald Ranch House

The test occurred on July 16, 1945; a plutonium bomb was tested, the type of weapon later dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

Meteorological history of Hurricane Ivan

After reaching hurricane status, Ivan began to rapidly intensify with continued favorable conditions, and in an 18 hour period the pressure dropped 39 mbar (1.15 inHg) as the winds increased by 60 mph (95 km/h); early on September 6 Ivan attained an initial peak intensity of 135 mph (215 km/h) while located about 825 miles (1330 km) east of the island of Tobago in the southern Lesser Antilles.

Persil Service

After the pilot scheme, the Kodak partnership was dropped and Fujifilm filled the gap.

Richard Polanco

In 2001 he was seen as the presumptive front-runner to succeed termed-out Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Hernandez, but he abruptly dropped out of the race for reasons that many found rather unconvincing.

Simon Grand

He began the 2003–04 season in the first team and was a regular until January 2004 when, having made 21 appearances in all competition, he was dropped from the side following the arrival of new manager Steve Parkin.

Strong Hand of Love

Two tracks were dropped completely for space on Orphans, "Castaway," by Bruce Carroll, and "How to Grow Up Big and Strong," by Rich Mullins.

Taine Randell

When John Mitchell and Robbie Deans took over the coaching of the All Blacks from Wayne Smith and Tony Gilbert in October 2001 Randell was dropped from the All Blacks.

The Mutilator

Code Red had been working on a DVD release of the film, but dropped the project when it was deemed that there was no 35mm print of the film available.

The Reason 4

After sailing through their audition and bootcamp stages, The Reason reached the judges houses stage and sang in front Simon Cowell's house in his residence in Marbella, singing Daniel Bedingfield's song "If You're Not The One", but were dropped by Simon, the mentor for the groups that year, in favour of One Direction, F.Y.D, Belle Amie and Diva Fever

Thelma Lou

Thelma Lou appeared as a semi-regular character in 26 episodes of the The Andy Griffith Show from 1961 until 1966 when the character was dropped from the show.

Times Two

As a result, the duo were subsequently dropped from Reprise, and the duo returned in 1990 on EMI Records with the EP "Danger Is My Business." A single was released, "Set Me Free," which prominently featured samples from Blue Swede's 1974 cover of B.J. Thomas' 1969 hit song "Hooked on a Feeling."

Tungsten carbide

A criticality accident occurred at Los Alamos National Laboratory on 21 August 1945 when Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium sphere, causing the subcritical mass to go supercritical with the reflected neutrons.

Yigal Carmon

The same is true of the Christians with regard to the Inquisition: First they believed that it was God's will, but later dropped it.


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