Comments on: Telco Startup Raises $100M for Northeast Buildout http://gigaom.com/2008/11/25/telco-startup-raises-100m-for-northeast-buildout/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Leap Pretties Itself Up With South Texas Joint Venture – GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/11/25/telco-startup-raises-100m-for-northeast-buildout/#comment-152980 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:16:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=30232#comment-152980 [...] a regional flat-rate service provider that also operates a network in New England, claims 320,000 customers in South Texas while Leap’s Cricket provides prepaid service to [...]

]]> By: Ian Littman http://gigaom.com/2008/11/25/telco-startup-raises-100m-for-northeast-buildout/#comment-152979 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:08:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=30232#comment-152979 Correction: Pocket’s Northeast market is AWS spectrum, San Antonio et al is regular PCS. They bought the San Antonio network from AT&T Wireless, who was in bad financial straits at the time.

The nice thing about having a PCS network is that you have a large selection of phones that’ll work on your network. Contract this to their competitor in the area, CricKet, who had to use AWS spectrum to bring service to South Texas. The result for CricKet: a limited phone portfolio that’s just now expanding into the area of decency.

]]> By: Pocket Communications bringing competition to unlimited calling plans | Prepaid Reviews http://gigaom.com/2008/11/25/telco-startup-raises-100m-for-northeast-buildout/#comment-152978 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:02:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=30232#comment-152978 [...] One of these is Pocket Communications. They’ve just received some good news in the form of $100 million in venture funding. This will allow the company, based in South Texas, to reach out to the Northeast, including areas [...]

]]> By: andrew http://gigaom.com/2008/11/25/telco-startup-raises-100m-for-northeast-buildout/#comment-152977 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:51:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=30232#comment-152977 Seems like it will stretch the company to be in two disparate areas…but I’m sure it did its homework on what cities need this type of mobile offering.

]]> By: Billing and OSS » Show me the Money http://gigaom.com/2008/11/25/telco-startup-raises-100m-for-northeast-buildout/#comment-152976 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:38:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=30232#comment-152976 [...] Wireless, which offers unlimited, single price wireless calling plans just scored over $100 million in new [...]

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