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7
xData Services. Our data services include services provided through the Binary Runtime
Environment for Wireless, or BREW, platform, such as ringtones, ring back tones, games and
content applications; text messaging services (domestic and international); multimedia
messaging services; mobile Internet browsing; mobile instant messaging; location based
services; social networking services; and push e-mail.
xCustom Calling Features. We offer custom calling features, including caller ID, call waiting,
three-way calling and voicemail.
xAdvanced Handsets. We sell a variety of handsets manufactured by nationally recognized
handset manufacturers for use on our network, including models that have cameras, can browse
the Internet, play music and have other features facilitating digital data.
Service Areas
Our strategy has been to offer our services in major metropolitan markets and surrounding areas. We
commenced providing commercial service in the first quarter of 2002. We launched service in our current
major metropolitan areas as follows:
xMiami, Atlanta and Sacramento in the first quarter of 2002
xSan Francisco in September 2002
xTampa/Sarasota in October 2005
xDallas/Ft. Worth in March 2006
xDetroit in April 2006
xOrlando and portions of northern Florida in November 2006
xLos Angeles in September 2007
xLas Vegas in March 2008
xPhiladelphia in July 2008
xNew York and Boston in February 2009
We provide service in Los Angeles, California and certain portions of Northern Florida, including Orlando,
through a wholesale arrangement with Royal Street Communications, a company in which we hold an 85%
non-controlling interest. For a discussion of Royal Street Communications, and its wholly owned
subsidiaries, or collectively with Royal Street Communications, Royal Street, please see “— Royal Street.”
The table below provides an overview of our currently licensed metropolitan areas including the Federal
Communications Commission, or FCC, licensed geographic area, the amount of broadband wireless
spectrum held, and whether we hold the FCC license ourselves or provide or will provide our services in
that metropolitan area through our agreements with Royal Street, which holds the license.