Pay-as-you-go mobile carrier "under attack" from rivals

Analysts say MetroPCS Communications needs to circle its wagons and grow via acquisitions to withstand increased competition from other pay-as-you-go mobile carriers. MetroPCS, which has lost about half its value over the past year, has been in talks to acquire a smaller rival, Leap Wireless International.

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This story published in CTIA SmartBrief on 10/27/2009





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