Cricket Wireless News & Deals

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 first annual BestMVNO.com end of the year MVNO and prepaid provider awards. (Disclaimer: Some links are affiliate links,

Cricket Wireless has announced a new promotion to try and entice customers to ditch their current cell phone plan provider and to join Cricket Nation.  Customers who made the switch yesterday, and those who switch by January 7 will receive a $100 bill credit for porting their number over.  Customers

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 nationwide.  The promotions will last until 1/7/2016 and are as follows: Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime $29.99 after $70 instant discount

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 contract space. With Cricket Rewards, customers can earn redeemable points by doing things with their phone such as checking the weather

Cricket Wireless Announces 2015 Holiday Promotion 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 the LG G stylo for $49.99.  A quick search on eBay and Amazon shows that both phones

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 October 25th, 2015, SIM cards and phones will be available via participating Target stores and via https://target.com The addition of Target to Crickets

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 hand since I don’t use the service, there are active discussions going on in regards to this topic both on reddit and

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 a Cricket Smart or Pro plan which include either 5 GB or 10 GB of 4G LTE ((download speeds capped at 8 Mbps)) data

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 thus is appropriately awarding one VIP grand prize winner with airfare, and a 3 night, 4 day stay in Los Angeles

      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 month with auto pay enabled.  Normally at that price point you only get 10

          Cricket Wireless today announced that its $50 (Smart) and $60 (Pro and Advanced) plans will now include unlimited calling mobile to mobile and to landlines as well as texting to Mexico.  Current customers do not have to do a thing to take advantage of these new plans, they’ll automatically

Cricket’s New Data Plans Blow Away the Competition in a Lot of Ways           I have to tip my hat off to AT&T and Cricket for coming up with these new cell phone plans.  Cricket today announced some great new offerings and raised the bar in terms of the amount

      Cricket Wireless is offering a $100 account credit if you port in a number and switch to their service from select providers.  To qualify for this offer you must port in a number from either Boost Mobile, T-Mobile, Sprint, Virgin Mobile, Cincinnati Bell or MetroPCS.  Why this ATT MVNO

If you’re in need of a new phone and are considering switching over to Cricket Wireless, you may want to wait until Monday when their Cyber Monday deals go live.  On Cyber Monday, December 1st, Cricket will be offering the Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Galaxy s5 for 50% off

Cricket Wireless New Improved Plans Cricket Wireless recently increased the amount of LTE data offered in all of of their prepaid wireless plans.  Facing stiff competition from providers that actually offer real LTE data speeds this looks to be a very good move on their part.  I criticize Cricket here