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.
Gnosticism is a heresy which is made up of a diverse set of beliefs. It is the teaching based on the idea of gnosis (a Koine Greek word meaning secret knowledge), or knowledge of transcendence arrived at by way of internal, intuitive means. While Gnosticism thus relies on personal religious experience as its primary authority, early Christian.