Leap Wireless launched Cricket Wireless first market in Chicago Illinois on March 17, 1999. On September 4, 2007, Competing carrier MetroPCS announced a $5.3 billion bid to merge with Leap Wireless.
The term huckster describes a person who sells something or serves biased interests, using pushy or showy tactics. The term has distinctive pejorative connotations, although historically huckster referred to any type of vendor or reseller.
For the EP by Grotus, see Luddite (EP). The Luddites were a group of English textile workers and weavers in the 19th century who destroyed weaving machinery as a form of protest. The group was protesting the use of machinery in a fraudulent and deceitful manner to get around standard labour practices.