Cricket Wireless News

By Joe Paonessa • 07/20/16

Cricket has announced exclusive availability of the Alcatel IDOL 4, the first smartphone sold with virtual reality goggles included.  The bundle will become available on Augus...

By Joe Paonessa • 06/20/16

Cricket Wireless is offering a bill switcher credit to those who make the switch to its network by July 14, 2016.  Those that do will receive a $50 bill credit, and if you bri...

By Joe Paonessa • 05/04/16

Cricket Wireless is once again a sponsor of the 2016 BET Awards After Party Live Post Show.  As a sponsor, they are offering you a chance to win an all expense paid trip for t...

By Joe Paonessa • 04/16/16

Cricket Wireless announced a new cell phone plan today that includes unlimited 4G LTE data.  The new plan makes Cricket the first AT&T based MVNO to offer Unlimited 4G LTE...

By Joe Paonessa • 01/29/16

Today Cricket Wireless announced the launch of the ZTE Grand X 3.  The device will be available both online and in stores for $129.99 and for $79.99 for those customers who po...

By Joe Paonessa • 01/10/16

Cricket Wireless offers three cell phone plans for smartphone users.  All three plans include unlimited talk and text with varying amounts of high speed data.  The $40/month B...

By Joe Paonessa • 01/01/16

With 2015 now in the rear-view mirror it’s time to reflect back on the year as it pertained to the world of MVNO’s and no contract cellphone plan providers. Welcome to the fir...

By Joe Paonessa • 12/05/15

Cricket Wireless announced earlier today that they will now be offering the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime, LG G Stylo and ZTE Sonata 2 smartphones at a discount both online and n...

By Joe Paonessa • 11/19/15

  Cricket Wireless today announced the launch of a loyalty program it is calling Cricket Rewards.  Cricket claims it is the only program of its kind in the no annual cont...

By Joe Paonessa • 11/13/15

Cricket Wireless announced some new cell phone deals today that are available immediately.  The AT&T owned MVNO is offering the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime for $29.99 and t...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/02/15

Cricket Wireless, a prepaid wireless provider owned by ATT has continued its national expansion into retail by offering its services in nearly 1600 Target stores.  Starting on...

By Joe Paonessa • 09/09/15

  Some Cricket Wireless users are reporting that the ATT owned MVNO is compressing images when they are viewed over its mobile network.  While I can’t confirm this first...

By Joe Paonessa • 08/24/15

  ATT owned Cricket Wireless announced today that it has expanded it’s international calling options to include nine new countries when dialing from the USA and while on...

By Joe Paonessa • 05/11/15

For those of you who like free things, Cricket Wireless has announced a sweepstakes for you to enter.  Cricket is sponsoring the 2015 BET Awards Afterparty Live Post-Show, and...

By Joe Paonessa • 04/09/15

      Cricket Wireless has had a promotion going on for a while where you could purchase a plan with 20 GB of LTEish (LTE download data speed capped at 8 Mbps) data for $55 a...