Cricket Wireless - Local CDMA provider for Texas

Nighthawke70 · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 107

They offer 5GB/mo service for $40/mo, $25 1st month activation.
Has anyone had experience with their service?
http://www.mycricket.com/cricketplans/details/broadband

gbshuler · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:53 am Post subject: Cricket CDMA Broadband $40/mth

I have been paying $59.99 a month for 2.5 years with Sprint. It's great service, but I had hoped the price would drop.

I wonder what the download speeds are for Cricket. Who's CDMA network are they using (AT&T, Sprint, Verizon?) They just moved into St. Louis. They are only in a handful of cities.. They offer "no background check", "free calls to Mexico". Ole' I say!

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phxphun1 · EVDO User Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 67

I've noticed the Cricket ads on TV - they say "unlimited" - is it like Verizon's unlimited, then? Unlimited or 5GB, whichever is smaller?

It is cheaper tho, at $40. FOr that matter, their unlimited voice plans are cheaper than everyone else's too.

I suppose a good deal if you live where they offer service and never travel.

Oh, and on their TV ads they are promoting it as an alternative to cable/DSL - interesting since the other providers' TOS usually indicate that it is not to be used as a replacement for wired internet service (tho it is probably never enforced).

AZDude · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:53 am Post subject:

Seems to be unlimited to me.

Throughput may be limited if use exceeds 5GB per month. Internet browsing does not include: hosted computer applications, continuous web camera or broadcast, automatic data feeds, machine-to-machine connections, peer to peer (P2P) connections or other applications that denigrate network capacity or functionality.

So if you go over 5GB they wont terminate you or charge you overages, they will just slow you down until the end of the billing cycle. So it is unlimited data usage.