Friday, August 6, 2010

Get Cricket Nationwide

5 months ago we reported that Cricket was able offer service to their own customers across the country with a new roaming agreement with Sprint. Now Leap, the parent company of Cricket, has taken nationwide service another step further. Soon, you will be able to sign up for Cricket service and plans in most US cities.

If you don't have native Cricket service, your Cricket phone will use the Sprint network. This makes Cricket a MVNO of Sprint in those markets, and it makes Cricket truly a "nationwide" service. Cricket has very good broadband capabilities, and using the Sprint network will also provide fairly good broadband coverage in non-Cricket markets.

Many of us were expecting Cricket to merge with MetroPCS which would provide a close to nationwide network. With this move, Cricket says, "Who needs MetroPCS?" Cricket, like AT&T, is now offering capped broadband plans instead of Unlimited, which won't save us any money. They also now offer Blackberry phones and plans, which means Cricket can serve the needs of a lot more customers, and now it's "Nationwide."

3 comments:

William said...

I've been waiting for this to happen for some time. Now we'll all wait and see how Metro responds.

Melissa said...

Cricket doesn't really have capped broadband. Once you reach that magic number of GB they would slow now your speed. It's actually always been this way but now you can pay more to keep your speed as fast for as long as possible.

Scott W said...

Thanks for pointing that out Melissa! Even with "speed limits", we still feel Cricket is one of the best values in broadband and their partnership with Sprint is a good thing.