Leap Wireless International Inc

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Company type	Public
Industry	Communications Services
Founded	1998
Headquarters	San Diego, CA (Operational Headquarters)
Revenue	$2.26B billion USD (2006)
Number of employees	1,400

Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) is a public telecommunications company that provides customers with affordable wireless services through its subsidiaries, Cricket® and Jump Mobile®. Leap was founded in 1998 and was built on the premise of unlimited services with no contracts and no credit checks, providing access to wireless services to customers who couldn’t otherwise afford it.

Leap has all-digital CDMA 1X and 1xEV-DO networks that have expanded significantly in the past few years. Leap currently offers service across 22 states, and has recently purchased spectrum at the AWS auction giving Leap coverage of an estimated 110 million potential customers. Leap Wireless is headquartered in San Diego, California and is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol LEAP.

About Leap's Subsidiary, Cricket Communications, Inc.

Cricket is a subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, Inc. It offers its customers wireless service without credit checks or long-term commitments, enabling customers wireless service who could not normally afford to do so.

Cricket is known for its unlimited wireless services. Customers can purchase plans ranging from $40 - $60 giving them unlimited local calling; unlimited U.S. long distance; unlimited text, picture & instant message; calling services such as voice mail, caller ID, call waiting & 3-way calling; and Unlimited Mobile Web.

Cricket launched its first market in 1999. It now offers service to more than two million customers in 22 states across the U.S.

Cricket customers have access to their unlimited features in Cricket markets around the nation, outside of those markets customers are roaming.

About Leap's Subsidiary, Jump Mobile(TM)

Jump Mobile is a subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, Inc. The pre-paid wireless service is not an MVNO, as it uses its parent company’s CDMA 1xEV-DO network to provide pre-paid wireless services to its customers.

Jump Mobile offers customers unlimited incoming calls from anywhere in the world, outgoing calls at 10 cents per minute, and unlimited incoming and outgoing text messages within the U.S.. The pre-paid service includes voicemail, caller ID, call waiting, three-way calling, and offers features such as directory assistance, ringtones, games, and wall papers. Customers can send international text messages from $.10 to $.15 per message and can call internationally from $.05 a minute.

Jump Mobile launched in its first market in 2005, and its service is currently available in 22 states.

History of Leap

Leap Wireless was founded in 1998, after it spun off as an independently traded company from Qualcomm. Leap was started with the idea to provide affordable wireless services to a wide range of customers, without credit checks or long-term commitments. Under that principal, it founded Cricket Communications in 1999 and launched in Chattanooga, Tennessee that year.

During this time, Leap also operated all-digital wireless service in Mexico and Chile under partnership with other companies. In May 2000 Leap Wireless sold its Chilean wireless operator Smartcom PCS to Endesa.

In March 2002, Leap sold its 20 percent stake in Mexican Wireless carrier Pegaso PCS to Telefonica Moviles.

Leap created Jump Mobile in 2005, a pre-paid mobile wireless service company that shared the unlimited motto of Cricket. Jump Mobile opened in its first market in 2005; its service is currently available in 22 states.

Executive Team

S. Douglas (Doug) Hutcheson President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Amin Khalifa Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Albin "Al" Moschner Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

Glenn Umetsu Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer

David Davis Senior Vice President, Operations

Robert Irving, Jr. Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Leonard Stephens Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Linda Wokoun Senior Vice President, Marketing and Customer Care

Grant Burton Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller

About the Network

Leap owns CDMA 1X and 1x EV-DO networks

Coverage Areas

Phoenix, AZ; Tucson, AZ; Central Arkansas (Little Rock, Hot Springs and Pine Bluff, AR); Fayetteville, AR; Fort Smith and Northwest Arkansas; Jonesboro, AR; Fresno, CA; Visalia, CA; Modesto and Merced, CA; San Diego, CA; Colorado Springs, CO; Denver, CO; Northern Colorado, CO; Pueblo, CO; Columbus, GA; Macon, GA; Boise, ID; Wichita, KS; Lexington, KY; Louisville, KY; Kansas City, MO; Lincoln, NE; Omaha, NE; Reno, Sparks and Carson City, NV; Albuquerque, NM; Las Cruces, NM; Santa Fe, NM; Buffalo, NY; Syracuse, NY; Charlotte, NC; Triad Area of North Carolina (Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem); Cincinnati, OH; Dayton and Columbus, OH; Tulsa, OK; Eugene, OR; Portland, OR; Salem, OR; Pittsburgh, PA; Chattanooga, TN; Knoxville, TN; Memphis, TN; Nashville, Clarksville and Middle Tennessee; Austin, TX; Bryan/College Station, TX; El Paso, TX; Houston, TX; San Antonio, TX; Temple/Killeen, TX; Utah’s Wasatch Front (Salt Lake City, Provo and Ogden); and Spokane, WA

Facts

• Leap’s Cricket & Jump Service is available in 22 states
• More than two million customers use Leap’s Cricket service
• Cricket customers talk approximately 1,500 minutes a month – double that of the industry average for traditional wireless customers
• 51 percent of Cricket customers do not own a landline phone at home.
• 93 percent of Cricket customers use Cricket as their primary phone
• 55 percent of Cricket customers are under the age of 35, compared to 25 percent of other wireless carriers’ customers.
• 22 percent of Cricket customers are 18-24, compared to eight percent of other wireless carriers
• Hispanic and African-Americans make up nearly 46 percent of Cricket customers, compared to 12 percent of other wireless carriers
• 72 percent of Cricket customers have a household income less than $35,000 per year, compared to 21 percent of other wireless carriers’ customers
• Cricket is the 8th largest wireless carrier in the United States
• Cricket is the fifth largest inter-carrier text messaging operator

External links

• Leap Wireless

• Cricket

• Jump
• Cricket Wireless