MetroPCS Communications, Inc.

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.metropcs.com
Employees: 3,700
Employee growth: 2.8%

MetroPCS Communications has an urban outlook on communications. The regional wireless service provider offers use of its phone networks without requiring its customers to sign long-term contracts. Unlike other providers that charge by the minute, MetroPCS offers monthly unlimited usage flat-rate plans for local and domestic long distance services to its approximately 9 million customers. It operates in about 20 states, primarily in major metropolitan areas as Atlanta, Dallas/Fort Worth, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Sacramento, and San Francisco. Chairman and CEO Roger Linquist and CTO Malcolm Lorang founded MetroPCS in 1994.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2011:
Sales: $4,847.4M
One year growth: 19.1%
Net income: $301.3M
Income growth: 55.8%

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Roger D. Linquist
EVP and CFO: J. Braxton Carter
SVP and CTO: Malcolm M. Lorang

Competitors:
AT&T Mobility
Cellco
Sprint Nextel