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By Joe Paonessa • 04/26/21
For the second time this year, AT&T Prepaid has updated its data only plans. The Mobile Resource Internet Center first noted the plan changes over the weekend. BestMVNO la...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/12/21
Cricket Wireless has launched a new set of deals today. Highlighted offers include $150 off any iPhone with up to $200 off the iPhone SE. There are also a dozen free Android p...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/02/21
Cricket Wireless currently has some very interesting offers running. Unfortunately, they aren’t widely available. But if you are in one of the test markets where the offers ar...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/02/21
Tax season will be here soon and with that wireless providers will come out with new sets of promotional offers. The first set of offers have begun to trickle out from both AT...
By Joe Paonessa • 01/21/21
Lady Red’s Tech Reviews, a Cricket Wireless vlogger recently detailed some of Cricket’s best and worst-performing phones. What’s particularly interesting is that Lady Red’s Te...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/30/20
This holiday shopping season has seen an increase in the number of prepaid wireless brands investing in the marketing of their services. Consumer Cellular, Cricket Wireless, M...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/30/20
Cricket Wireless is ending October with more free phone deals. Over 10 Android devices are now available for free to switchers as part of Cricket’s “Big Savings On Android Pho...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/27/20
AT&T Prepaid and Cricket Wireless appear to be leaving Best Buy stores. Over the last several weeks, analysts from the firm Wave7 Research noticed inventory of both brands...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/01/20
The calendar has turned to October, and Cricket Wireless has some new and updated deals out. The iPhone 7 is now free in-stores while the iPhone 8 can now be picked up online...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/01/20
Back on August 21st, Cricket Wireless officially launched 5G network access. Just days later, analysts at Wave7 Research spotted the first Cricket Wireless TV ads touting the...
By Joe Paonessa • 08/21/20
In late July, AT&T announced that it turned on its 5G network nationwide. Also contained in the announcement was a blurb stating that the network would become available to...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/24/20
Cricket Wireless now has a launch date for 5G wireless. On August 21st, subscribers will be able to activate 5G service on the network. Cricket’s first 5G device to become ava...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/02/20
Cricket Wireless has been very busy over the last several weeks with new phone launches and promos. A recent report from Wave7 Research noted another new offer from Cricket, t...
By Joe Paonessa • 06/06/20
Cricket Wireless has been busy over the past week launching a series of new devices. On May 29, the Samsung Galaxy A01 ($109.99) and Nokia C2 Tava ($102.99) were launched. A Y...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/29/20
At the end of March, Cricket Wireless released a $15 phone plan to help those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan included unlimited everything with the first 2GB of d...














