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Leap to Bring Google Services to Enrich Consumers' Mobile Experiences
Cricket(R) Customers Will Have Access to an Array of Popular Google Products and Services Including Gmail(TM), Maps for Mobile, and Search
SAN DIEGO, Nov 06, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Focused on further enriching the mobile experience for its Cricket(R) customers, Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ:LEAP), a leading provider of innovative and value-driven wireless communications services, today announced a definitive agreement to provide users with direct access to an array of Google(TM) products and services. Cricket customers will have access to Google's popular search engine, as well as its email and map applications in 2007.
"Keeping mobile content both simple and unlimited for our Cricket customers is a continuing priority for the company," said Doug Hutcheson, chief executive officer and president of Leap. "Teaming with an industry leader like Google enables us to effectively provide consumers with the wealth of information they have become accustomed to getting through Google, only now they no longer need to be tethered to their home or office computer. We believe that this enhancement to our product portfolio will resonate well with customers and further advance our innovative and unlimited position in the marketplace."
With the addition of Google(TM) services to the Cricket wireless data offering, customers will have access to several popular features, including:
-- Search - Customers can wirelessly access Google's entire index of Web and mobile Web pages, with the pages designed to fit each mobile device's smaller screensize.
-- Local Listings - Users can search and locate everything from tailors to restaurants.
-- Personalized Home - With this service, Cricket customers can customize their Google personalized homepage for their mobile device, as well as view their most recent Gmail(TM) messages, check weather updates and keep up-to-speed on important information without being tethered to their home or office.
-- Email correspondence - Cricket customers can read and compose Gmail(TM) messages while on the go since Gmail(TM) is optimized for the mobile device being used.
-- Email attachment viewing - Customers can also open attachments they receive in Gmail(TM) including photos, Microsoft Word(TM) documents, and PDF files.
-- Maps - With Google Maps for mobile, Cricket customers can wirelessly access business locations; interactive maps that allow users to zoom in or out and move in all directions for easy orientation; and directions, with routes displayed on the map itself, together with step-by-step directions. In addition, local business locations and contact information appear all in one place, which is integrated on the map, and users can also get a bird's eye view of their desired location with Google's satellite imagery service.
-- Real-time traffic - Using one of the newest features of Google Maps for mobile, customers can identify where traffic congestion is and estimate delays in over 30 major U.S. metropolitan areas.
About Leap
Leap, headquartered in San Diego, Calif., is a customer-focused company providing innovative mobile wireless services targeted to meet the neeRAB of customers under-served by traditional communications companies. With the value of unlimited wireless services as the foundation of its business, Leap pioneered both Cricket(R) and Jump(TM) Mobile service. Through its affordable, flat-rate service plans, Cricket offers customers a choice of unlimited local voice minutes, unlimited domestic long distance voice minutes, unlimited text, instant and picture messaging and additional value-added services over a high-quality, all-digital CDMA network. Designed for the mobile-dependent, urban youth market, Jump Mobile is a unique prepaid wireless service that offers customers free unlimited incoming calls from anywhere with outgoing calls at an affordable 10 cents per minute and free incoming and outgoing text messaging. Both Cricket and Jump Mobile services are offered without long-term commitments or credit checks. For more information, please visit www.leapwireless.com.
Except for the historical information contained herein, this report contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements reflect management's current forecast of certain aspects of Leap's future. You can identify most forward-looking statements by forward-looking worRAB such as "believe," "think," "may," "could," "will," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "seek," "plan," "expect," "should," "would" and similar expressions in this report. Such statements are based on currently available operating, financial and competitive information and are subject to various risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated or implied in our forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and assumptions include, among other things:
-- our ability to attract and retain customers in an extremely competitive marketplace;
-- changes in economic conditions that could adversely affect the market for wireless services;
-- the impact of competitors' initiatives;
-- our ability to successfully implement product offerings and execute market expansion plans;
-- our ability to comply with the covenants in our senior secured credit facilities and any future credit agreement, indenture or similar instrument;
-- our ability to attract, motivate and retain an experienced workforce;
-- failure of our network systems to perform according to expectations; and
-- other factors detailed in the section entitled "Risk Factors" included in our periodic reports filed with the SEC.
All forward-looking statements included in this news release should be considered in the context of these risk factors. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Investors and prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.
Leap is a U.S. registered trademark and the Leap logo is a trademark of Leap. Cricket is a U.S. registered trademark of Cricket. In addition, the following are trademarks of Cricket: Unlimited Access, Unlimited Plus, Unlimited Classic, Jump, Travel Time, Cricket Clicks and the Cricket "K." All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Cricket(R) Customers Will Have Access to an Array of Popular Google Products and Services Including Gmail(TM), Maps for Mobile, and Search
SAN DIEGO, Nov 06, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Focused on further enriching the mobile experience for its Cricket(R) customers, Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ:LEAP), a leading provider of innovative and value-driven wireless communications services, today announced a definitive agreement to provide users with direct access to an array of Google(TM) products and services. Cricket customers will have access to Google's popular search engine, as well as its email and map applications in 2007.
"Keeping mobile content both simple and unlimited for our Cricket customers is a continuing priority for the company," said Doug Hutcheson, chief executive officer and president of Leap. "Teaming with an industry leader like Google enables us to effectively provide consumers with the wealth of information they have become accustomed to getting through Google, only now they no longer need to be tethered to their home or office computer. We believe that this enhancement to our product portfolio will resonate well with customers and further advance our innovative and unlimited position in the marketplace."
With the addition of Google(TM) services to the Cricket wireless data offering, customers will have access to several popular features, including:
-- Search - Customers can wirelessly access Google's entire index of Web and mobile Web pages, with the pages designed to fit each mobile device's smaller screensize.
-- Local Listings - Users can search and locate everything from tailors to restaurants.
-- Personalized Home - With this service, Cricket customers can customize their Google personalized homepage for their mobile device, as well as view their most recent Gmail(TM) messages, check weather updates and keep up-to-speed on important information without being tethered to their home or office.
-- Email correspondence - Cricket customers can read and compose Gmail(TM) messages while on the go since Gmail(TM) is optimized for the mobile device being used.
-- Email attachment viewing - Customers can also open attachments they receive in Gmail(TM) including photos, Microsoft Word(TM) documents, and PDF files.
-- Maps - With Google Maps for mobile, Cricket customers can wirelessly access business locations; interactive maps that allow users to zoom in or out and move in all directions for easy orientation; and directions, with routes displayed on the map itself, together with step-by-step directions. In addition, local business locations and contact information appear all in one place, which is integrated on the map, and users can also get a bird's eye view of their desired location with Google's satellite imagery service.
-- Real-time traffic - Using one of the newest features of Google Maps for mobile, customers can identify where traffic congestion is and estimate delays in over 30 major U.S. metropolitan areas.
About Leap
Leap, headquartered in San Diego, Calif., is a customer-focused company providing innovative mobile wireless services targeted to meet the neeRAB of customers under-served by traditional communications companies. With the value of unlimited wireless services as the foundation of its business, Leap pioneered both Cricket(R) and Jump(TM) Mobile service. Through its affordable, flat-rate service plans, Cricket offers customers a choice of unlimited local voice minutes, unlimited domestic long distance voice minutes, unlimited text, instant and picture messaging and additional value-added services over a high-quality, all-digital CDMA network. Designed for the mobile-dependent, urban youth market, Jump Mobile is a unique prepaid wireless service that offers customers free unlimited incoming calls from anywhere with outgoing calls at an affordable 10 cents per minute and free incoming and outgoing text messaging. Both Cricket and Jump Mobile services are offered without long-term commitments or credit checks. For more information, please visit www.leapwireless.com.
Except for the historical information contained herein, this report contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements reflect management's current forecast of certain aspects of Leap's future. You can identify most forward-looking statements by forward-looking worRAB such as "believe," "think," "may," "could," "will," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "seek," "plan," "expect," "should," "would" and similar expressions in this report. Such statements are based on currently available operating, financial and competitive information and are subject to various risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated or implied in our forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and assumptions include, among other things:
-- our ability to attract and retain customers in an extremely competitive marketplace;
-- changes in economic conditions that could adversely affect the market for wireless services;
-- the impact of competitors' initiatives;
-- our ability to successfully implement product offerings and execute market expansion plans;
-- our ability to comply with the covenants in our senior secured credit facilities and any future credit agreement, indenture or similar instrument;
-- our ability to attract, motivate and retain an experienced workforce;
-- failure of our network systems to perform according to expectations; and
-- other factors detailed in the section entitled "Risk Factors" included in our periodic reports filed with the SEC.
All forward-looking statements included in this news release should be considered in the context of these risk factors. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Investors and prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.
Leap is a U.S. registered trademark and the Leap logo is a trademark of Leap. Cricket is a U.S. registered trademark of Cricket. In addition, the following are trademarks of Cricket: Unlimited Access, Unlimited Plus, Unlimited Classic, Jump, Travel Time, Cricket Clicks and the Cricket "K." All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.