| We offer wireless broadband personal communication services, or PCS, on a no
long-term contract, flat-rate, unlimited usage basis in the San Francisco,
Miami, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Sacramento, Tampa/Sarasota/Orlando,
Dallas/Ft. Worth, and Detroit metropolitan areas, which include a total licensed
population of approximately 67 million. Our customers pay for our service in
advance. In November 2006, we acquired advanced wireless services, or AWS,
licenses covering a total population of approximately 126 million outside of the
metropolitan areas where we then held or had access to spectrum. These new
areas, which we refer to as our Auction 66 Markets, encompass six of the top 25
metropolitan market areas in the United States, including, but are not limited
to, the entire east coast corridor from Philadelphia to Boston, including New
York City, as well as the entire states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and
Massachusetts. |
