Leap, which is losing money in several ways, is seen as too much of aheadache for Sprint, which is just beginning to recover from its own merger problems. (The Nextel part, from way back in 2004.) The elimination of at least one particular suitor led J.
If it's aheadache policing that in the real world--just ask U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky--imagine what it would be like in cyberspace, dealing with a rogue site that might be hosted in Iran one day and the Cayman Islands the next.
Yet just as Facebook is getting its act together on mobile, it faces a competitive headache over the next year or two from increasingly popular and native-to-mobile messaging apps.