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jharvey71884

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Moving to Dallas (Texas) and when I found a place down there, Sprint was horrible. It's been really good to me until now in Nebraska.

Thinking of moving over to Cricket Wireless. Anyone using it? I have heard it's pretty decent nowadays with AT&T buying it.
 
I use Cricket. No issues. Running their cheapest $35/month (after autopay discount) BYOD plan since I'm on wifi most of the day anyway (2.5 GB of data is plenty for me ... been on it long enough it was 1 GB of data when I first started). I only have a few knocks ... LTE is throttled in most places (8-10Mbs for me) and there's no way (like with ATT) to pay to have my phone active when I travel way out of country (Europe, etc). Otherwise, I've never had problems with coverage (except at huge events), getting info I need (looking things up, apps like Uber, etc), and call quality.
 
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I love cricket, ATT service at a fraction of the cost. Like the person above, I am on the $35 plan (after $5 autopay discount). The 8mbps throttle is more than fast enough (most people's home wifi is around that speed). The app is nice and everything is very straight forward.
 
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I was on and off Cricket (formerly Aio) for about 2 years and loved it. They do seem to have MMS issues on Android, but everything works great on iPhone. The only reason I switched is because my usage is so low that Tracfone is a better deal for me.
 
jharvey71884 said:
Moving to Dallas (Texas) and when I found a place down there, Sprint was horrible. It's been really good to me until now in Nebraska.

Thinking of moving over to Cricket Wireless. Anyone using it? I have heard it's pretty decent nowadays with AT&T buying it.
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I have two lines on Cricket and would recommend it to anyone that wants affordable wireless. Coverage is fine and the two lines cost less than one I had on ATT.
 
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No tethering with Cricket though, correct?

Also, what's the roaming situation? I understand that Cricket uses ATT towers, but what about with ATT's roaming partners? Is that still a thing in 2016?
 
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Consumer Cellular also uses AT&T towers (thus AT&T locked iPhones work with CC) and is cheaper than Cricket.
Don't let their over 50 advertising fool you- anyone can sign up for their service. They answer their phones quickly and send you out your SIM using Priority mail.
 
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braddick said:
Consumer Cellular also uses AT&T towers (thus AT&T locked iPhones work with CC) and is cheaper than Cricket.
Don't let their over 50 advertising fool you- anyone can sign up for their service. They answer their phones quickly and send you out your SIM using Priority mail.
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+1 to all of the above and CC offers tethering and doesn't throttle LTE.

Good value for light to moderate data users. Sweet spot is either the $35/1.5GB plan or the $45/3GB plan.
 
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cousintim said:
+1 to all of the above and CC offers tethering and doesn't throttle LTE.

Good value for light to moderate data users. Sweet spot is either the $35/1.5GB plan or the $45/3GB plan.
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How is CC even an portion when we are talking about unlimited data.
 
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How is CC even an portion when we are talking about unlimited data.
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Read the thread. You may be talking about unlimited data but the first 11 posts did not.

I explained who CC is an option for. If that is not you, move on.
 
Heard the ping times were much longer with cricket.

The 8mpbs doesn't bother me as much as longer ping times.
 
willmtaylor said:
No tethering with Cricket though, correct?

Also, what's the roaming situation? I understand that Cricket uses ATT towers, but what about with ATT's roaming partners? Is that still a thing in 2016?
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You can add tethering to any data package (except unlimited) for an addit. $10

I signed up today. Only thing I wish they had was wifi calling like AT&T. Otherwise it would save me $50/mo versus my 5 lines w/ AT&T currently.
 
gottafly said:
You can add tethering to any data package (except unlimited) for an addit. $10

I signed up today. Only thing I wish they had was wifi calling like AT&T. Otherwise it would save me $50/mo versus my 5 lines w/ AT&T currently.
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Just a tip, but if you use the $10/mo tethering add-on to Crickets $50/5gb plan then you might as well use AT&T Gophone instead since they include tethering for free (as well as monthly data rollover) in their $60/5gb plan.

It'll end up being the same cost per month (both have a $5/mo auto refill discount option) but Gophone doesn't throttle your connection or ping times at all so your speeds are just as fast as postpaid customers.
 
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Just a tip, but if you require the $10/mo tethering add-on to Crickets $50/5gb plan you might as well use AT&T Gophone instead since they include tethering for free (as well as monthly data rollover) in their $55/5gb plan. It'll end up being the same cost per month but Gophone doesn't throttle your connection or ping times.
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Yes, but the real savings with Cricket is on the 2nd-5th additional lines. (5 lines = (-$100))
 
willmtaylor said:
No tethering with Cricket though, correct?

Also, what's the roaming situation? I understand that Cricket uses ATT towers, but what about with ATT's roaming partners? Is that still a thing in 2016?
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there is tethering but its only on a few select cricket phones and you have to pay extra $10 dollars a month and you have to be on the $60 dollar plan to use it
 
iceman42 said:
there is tethering but its only on a few select cricket phones and you have to pay extra $10 dollars a month and you have to be on the $60 dollar plan to use it
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Not exactly. It works with a LOT of phones (all modern iPhones) not just select cricket phones. Yes, it is $10 to add tethering but can be done on data packages of 5GB or 10GB ($45/mo & $55/mo respectively w/ autopay).

https://www.cricketwireless.com/con...tspot/customer/hotspot-compatible-phones.html
 
I'd keep an eye out though, as Cricket has a lot of dead spots due to not roaming off of AT&T (at least that's what their map still shows): https://www.cricketwireless.com/map.html

OP mentioned Nebraska, and there's a huge gap there...other than that, their service and pricing is pretty competitive.
 
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