The downturn has been good to prepay carriers such as MetroPCS. Following a note sale that raised half a billion dollars in cash, pay-as-you-go mobile firm MetroPCS is mulling over what to do with the money, which may include acquisitions of smaller firms, or investing into a fourth generation network, according to Bloomberg, which interviewed its CEO Roger Linquist. It will also allow the company to stay independent, or as Linquist put it,
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