Leap Wireless is a wireless communications carrier that offers digital wireless services in the U.S. under the “Cricket” brand. Its Cricket service offerings provide customers with unlimited nationwide wireless services for a flat rate without requiring a fixed-term contract or a credit check. Cricket service is offered by Cricket, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leap. Cricket service is also offered in Oregon by its wholly-owned subsidiary, LCW Wireless Operations, LLC, or LCW Operations; in the upper Midwest by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Denali Spectrum Operations, LLC, or Denali Operations; and in South Texas by its joint venture, STX Wireless Operations, LLC, or STX Operations. Leap controls STX Operations through a 75.75% controlling membership interest in its parent company, STX Wireless, LLC, or STX Wireless. In addition, Leap owns an 85% non-controlling membership interest in Savary Island Wireless, LLC, or Savary Island, which holds wireless licenses and a related spectrum lease covering the upper Midwest portion of the U.S. outside of our Chicago and Southern Wisconsin operating markets.  Leap was formed as a Delaware corporation in 1998. Leap’s shares began trading publicly in September 1998, and it launched its innovative Cricket service in March 1999. Leap conducts operations through its subsidiaries and has no independent operations or sources of income other than interest income and through dividends, if any, from its subsidiaries. Source: SEC Filings

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Report: Sprint's Virgin Mobile to launch prepaid iPhone

Sprint Nextel is gearing up to have its Virgin Mobile brand follow Cricket provider Leap Wireless as the second U.S. prepaid carrier to offer Apple's iPhone, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal .

Leap commits $900M over three years to Apple for iPhone

Cricket provider Leap Wireless ( NASDAQ:LEAP ) said it committed $900 million over three years to sell Apple's ( NASDAQ:AAPL ) iPhone. However, the company, the first U.S. prepaid carrier to sell the

Leap Wireless to launch prepaid iPhone

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Leap to expand LTE coverage to up to 65M POPs by 2014

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Largest carriers lost combined 52,000 postpaid subs in Q1

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Report: AT&T, Leap held merger talks recently

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NEW ORLEANS--For the past few weeks it may have seemed like Microsoft's ( NASDAQ:MSFT ) Windows Phone platform was on the run. Nokia ( NYSE:NOK ), Microsoft's key partner, posted disappointing