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Now that Leap Wireless has fully been swallowed up by AT&T, AT&T has decided to kill off its own barely a year old brand AIO, and replace it with the newly acquired Cricket Wireless via Leap. Â As you may or may not have known, Cricket formerly ran on Sprint's network as an MVNO. Â For the time being, if you are a Cricket customer you'll be able to keep your current phone and service, although AT&T wants everyone migrated over to it's network over the next 18 months.
Also for a limited time Cricket is offering a limited discount for new customers. Â New customers will receive a $50 mail in rebate for select smartphones, current customers need not feel left out though. Â If you are currently a subscriber and have paid your bill on time for the past 12 months you too will receive a $50 discount off of your next cell phone purchase. Â Crickets plans that include data range in price from $40 and go all the way up to $60. Â All plans include unlimited talk and text, and 4G LTE where available. Â A note about Cricket's data plans though is that right off the bat all LTE plans are throttled as the maximum data speed is capped at 8 Mbps and if you are on HSPA+ your top speed will be 4 Mbps. Â Both these speeds though should be plenty fast for most customers. Â If you are interested in Cricket, the new "Smart Plan" appears to offer the best value at $50 for 2.5 GB data at up to 4 G LTE speeds. Â If you enable auto pay the price of your monthly bill will drop to $45/month.