Cricket, One Economy seek to expand project change access in five cities - FierceWireless

SAN DIEGO - August 17, 2009 - Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider of unlimited wireless services and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ:LEAP), today announced the filing of an application for federal Recovery Act funding, in partnership with One Economy Corporation. The grant proposal would extend Project Change Access - an innovative program for affordable wireless broadband service - to low-income residents in five cities.

The proposal to the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration for a Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grant would build on the success of Project Change Access, launched in Portland, Ore., last fall as a pilot program by LCW Wireless and One Economy. LCW Wireless, a company in which Cricket owns a non-controlling interest, offers Cricket(r) unlimited service in Oregon markets. One Economy is a global non-profit organization that leverages the power of technology and information to connect low-income people to the economic mainstream...