Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ:LEAP), the parent company of Cricket Communications, Inc, a leading provider of unlimited wireless services, is now offering its Cricket services in Savannah, Ga., Hilton Head, S. C. and surrounding communities. The Savannah network spans 3,284 square miles and is fully operational. The Savannah market includes approximately 600,000 new covered POPs, bringing Cricket’s national covered POPs to approximately 62.3 million.
The introduction of Cricket service in the Savannah area follows the Company’s purchase earlier this year of the wireless telecommunications business of Hargray Communications Group, Incorporated. Hargray’s wireless subscribers are transitioning to Cricket’s unlimited service plans and are benefiting from Cricket’s improvements to expand and enhance the network. Cricket has released customers from any contracts that may have been in place, and is in the process of refunding any deposits they may have paid. Additionally, Cricket will provide the wireless service component of Hargray Communications Group’s “quadruple-play” bundle that also includes telephone, high-speed Internet, and all-digital television services in Hilton Head and surrounding areas.
“By purchasing Hargray’s wireless business and infrastructure, we were able to increase our speed to market while still maintaining our cost leadership advantage,” said Doug Hutcheson, president and chief executive officer of Leap. “This launch is another step toward our goal of doubling the size of our Cricket business by the end of 2010, and it continues to expand our presence along the eastern seaboard, which will ultimately reach from Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., through the Carolinas and Georgia.”
Cricket service is available in the Savannah area at two Cricket retail stores and approximately 35 authorized dealers (including four Hargray retail stores in the Hilton Head area), as well as online at www.mycricket.com and via the telephone at 800-922-9169. Customers are able to choose from a wide variety of rate plans, ranging from $25 to $60 a month and including an assortment of features from unlimited anytime minutes, unlimited U.S. long distance, unlimited text and picture messaging, unlimited text to Mexico, unlimited Mobile Web, unlimited directory assistance and nationwide roaming minutes.
For more information about Cricket and its wireless plans visit: www.mycricket.com or for more information on Leap Wireless visit: www.leapwireless.com.
About Leap
Leap provides innovative, high-value wireless services to a fast-growing, young and ethnically diverse customer base. With the value of unlimited wireless services as the foundation of its business, Leap pioneered its Cricket® service. The Company and its joint ventures now operate in 29 states and hold licenses in 35 of the top 50 U.S. markets. Through its affordable, flat-rate service plans, Cricket offers customers a choice of unlimited voice, text, data and mobile Web services. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Leap is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "LEAP." For more information, please visit www.leapwireless.com.
LEAP is a registered trademark and service mark of Leap Wireless Communications, Inc. The Leap logo is trademark and service mark of Leap Wireless Communications, Inc. CRICKET, CRICKET COMMUNICATIONS, “Real Unlimited. Unreal Savings.”, the Cricket Stylized K, and FLEX BUCKET are registered trademarks and service marks of Cricket Communications, Inc. “Cricket PAYGo is a service mark of Cricket Communications, Inc.” All other trademarks and service marks are property of their respective owner.
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Greg Lund, Media Relations,
858-882-9105
glund@leapwireless.com
or
Amy
Wakeham, Investor Relations, 858-882-6084
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