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.
Green Politics. Neo-Luddism. The term Luddite is a political/historical term relating to a political movement during the Industrial Revolution; it is primarily used to describe those perceived as being uncompromisingly or unnecessarily opposed to technological or scientific innovations.