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Articles tagged with: Leap Wireless
MetroPCS Withdraws Takeover Bid For Leap
NEW YORK (Dow Jones) -- MetroPCS Communications on Thursday withdrew its offer to buy rival Leap Wireless International, two months after Leap rejected an unsolicited $4.7 billion bid. more
Leap Wireless Director Resigns as Exodus Continues
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Leap Loses CFO - Investigates MetroPCS Takeover Offer
Separately, Leap announced that CFO, Amin Khalifa, has resigned from the company to pursue other interests. Leap CEO and President, Doug Hutcheson, will assume the additional duties of interim CFO, pending the naming of a successor to Mr. Khalifa. Hutcheson held the post of CFO at Leap from August 2002 to February 2005 when he was named CEO. more
Google Talks Principles, Moves To Disrupt Wireless Market"
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Google on Friday portrayed itself as a champion of consumers' unfettered access to the Internet, but demonstrated with a $4.6 billion promise that it sees profit in disrupting the telecommunications companies' hold on the wireless market. more
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The Fastest Growing Operators in North America
The North American market had a particularly quiet quarter, with fewer than 6m new customers in all on a net basis. In this kind of environment, it is most unlikely that there would be any changes in the list of the largest operators, but the unlikely did in fact happen, with Bell Mobility dropping one place down the rankings from seventh to eighth. This was hardly a major change: it lost five thousand customers in the quarter and US Cellular, which had been breathing down its neck, added 16,000, to move ahead of its Canadian counterpart for the first time. The chart below shows the new pecking order, which is unchanged in all other respects. more
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Nortel Wins USA CDMA Expansion Contract
Nortel Networks has signed a three year, US$135 million agreement to supply Cricket Communications with CDMA equipment to expand its network coverage. Cricket will use Nortel CDMA2000 1X and EV-DO Rev A equipment to expand their services to new markets across the U.S. using recently acquired Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum. more
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Alcatel-Lucent Wins US CDMA Contract
Alcatel-Lucent says that it has been awarded a five-year agreement worth up to US$126 million by the USA based CDMA operator, Cricket - the consumer brand name of Leap Wireless. Under terms of the agreement, the new market expansion includes the deployment of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A (Rev. A). more
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North America Operators in 2006: The Top 10
The North American market bears some similarities to that in the Russian and Central Asian region, which also features in this issue of the Briefing. In both, a single national market absolutely dominates the entire region. Both of the major countries - Russia and the USA - are themselves divided into regions and sub-regions for the purposes of telecommunications licensing. This means that both markets are made up of national, or near-national operators, regional players and some local businesses of such insignificance that, for once, they slip below our radar. more
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Leap Wireless International Swings To 4Q Loss; Expenses Up 49%
Leap Wireless International swung to a fourth-quarter loss of $39.4 million, or 60 cents a share, from a net income of $5 million, or 8 cents a share, as operating expense increases outstripped revenue gains. more
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Sprint's Rivals Seen Benefiting From Company's Struggles
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Sprint Nextel's deteriorating business left the door open to rivals who expanded at the expense of the ailing wireless carrier over the past quarter. more
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