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.
Backsliding, also known as falling away, is a term used within Christianity to describe a process by which an individual who has converted to Christianity reverts to pre-conversion habits and/or lapses or falls into sin, when a person turns from God to pursue their own desire.