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Cricket Wireless is Offering New $100 Bill Credit That Can Be Combined With Other Holiday Offers

Joe Paonessa - Dec 8, 2015
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
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Cricket Wireless Offering Discounts on Select Smartphones

Joe Paonessa - Dec 5, 2015
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
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Cricket Introduces “Cricket Rewards,” A Loyalty Program For No Contract Customers

Joe Paonessa - Nov 19, 2015
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
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Cricket Wireless Announces Holiday Shopping Deals

Joe Paonessa - Nov 13, 2015
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
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Cricket Wireless Expands Retail Presence Via Target

Joe Paonessa - Oct 2, 2015
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
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Cricket Wireless Reportedly Saving Bandwidth Via Image Compression

Joe Paonessa - Sep 9, 2015
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
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Cricket Wireless Expands International Calling to 9 New Countries and Unlimited Talk and Text to and from the USA and Canada

Joe Paonessa - Aug 24, 2015
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
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Cricket Giving Away All Expenses Paid Trip to 2015 BET Awards as well as Multiple Samsung Galaxy S6’s and a Year of Service

Joe Paonessa - May 11, 2015
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
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Cricket Wireless 20 GB Advanced Plan Promotion Expires Today

Joe Paonessa - Apr 9, 2015
      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
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Cricket Wireless Now Includes Unlimited Calling and Texting to Mexico on Select Plans

Joe Paonessa - Feb 10, 2015
          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
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Cricket Increases Data Amounts on Two Plans and Adds a New Offering

Joe Paonessa - Jan 30, 2015
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
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Cricket Wireless Offers $100 Account Credit for Porting Number In

Joe Paonessa - Dec 15, 2014
      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
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Cricket Wireless Cyber Monday Deals

Joe Paonessa - Nov 26, 2014
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
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Cricket is Offering More Data to Subscribers

Joe Paonessa - Sep 13, 2014
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
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ATT MVNO AIO Wireless Relaunched as Cricket Wireless

Joe Paonessa - May 19, 2014
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.  As you may or may not have known, Cricket formerly ran on Sprint’s network
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