Unlimited EV-DO data on Cricket for $35
Yeah, we know..it sounds to good to be true, and in many ways it is. Cricket is nothing more than a small regional carrier, servicing Portland, Spokane, Albuquerque, and Central California. As such, this deal is only applicable for anyone that lives in those areas and doesn’t travel too often. That said, if the previous statement applies to you, please run out and take advatage of this. Cricket Wireless is now offering unlimted EV-DO Rev. 0 (sorry, no Rev. A love) data access for the incredibly low rate of $35/month. They currently offer a single PC data card, but should have a USB version coming in the very near future. Will the big boys follow suit here? Probably not, but we can always wish, right?
Cricket is in quite a lot of areas, according to their coverage maps. I’ve also read in our local newspaper (northern Delaware) that they are building towers in this area as well.
They have coverage in Southern California as well, since they lit up San Diego last year. Not a bad deal, next option you can get is for $15 more to get Rev. A with Sprint if you do it through SERO.
Cricket is also in North East New York (Rochester). I have Verizon, but Cricket is at least available here.
theyre in Phoenix AZ as well.
Has anyone else noticed that the “major” carriers are no longer OFFERING unlimited data plans with aircards? I have been on Sprint, AT&T, AND Verizons websites & the unlimited data plans with air cards are conspicuously absent!!!
Cricket is also in Houston, Texas.
and they’re spreading fast.
but egh crappy phones.
Ummmm, Cricket is also available in Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Looks like a certain writer needs to go to their coverage maps before posting.
Well, you could pay Cricket $35 for data or you could get a PPC 6700 cheap on E-Bay and pay Sprint $30 for a SERO Plan with unlimited Power Vision. You get 500 minutes of voice with that and unlimited SMS depending on when you sign up. Use it tethered to you laptop via USB. Great assuming they don’t fold this week.
Yeah– Cricket has ALOT more areas than Portland, Spokane, Albuquerque, and Central California. Take a look at their coverage map- http://www.mycricket.com/cricketcoveragemaps/
Maybe the EVDO unlimited data is only available in a few select cities though cuz it’s not available in PHX.
Yes, Cricket is available in many areas across the nation, but this EV-DO data plan isn’t. It’s only available in a few select areas. It’s available here in the Central Valley. You can check if that plan is available at their website:
http://www.butyoucould.com
EVDO with Cricket is only officially launched in the markets mentioned above. Unofficially, people are using EVDO with Cricket in most of the larger Cricket markets.
To the poster who suggested purchasing a 6700 for use with Sprint’s Sero plan; the same phone can unlocked and reprogrammed (”flashed”) to work with Cricket, including EVDO and tethering with your computer. You’ll have unlimited EVDO + Unlimited minutes/SMS/MMS/Long distance/411 for $50/mo. Or less ($35) if you don’t want long distance/411/voicemail….
This is not something I’ve heard, this is something I do, here in Denver, for people, all day, and is my full-time job. I’m also posting this comment while connected to the Internet on my laptop, using a flashed Sprint Mogul, which of course has the WM6.1/GPS updates. I get about 1100-1300kbps downstream, 320kbps upstream, according to speedtest.net, dslreports and other online bandwidth speed tests.
Visit the cricket forum at howardforums, it is easily the largest gathering of cricket enthusiests and experts that I know of. You’d be amazed what we have accomplished on our little regional carrier.
come on now — Cricket doesn’t really mean “unlimited.” Why are people reflecting their marketing terms that have no bearing on reality. I’d rather see this article renamed to the “5GB EV-DO data on Cricket for 35.00.” As of Jan 21, 2008 it also requires a cricket voice line at that price, or you’ll be paying $40.00.
“Throughput may be limited if use exceeds 5GB per month. Internet browsing does not include: hosted computer applications, continuous web camera or broadcast, automatic data feeds, machine-to-machine connections, peer to peer (P2P) connections or other applications that denigrate network capacity or functionality.”
http://www.mycricket.com/cricketplans/details/broadband
Cricket may have a 5GB cap, but I doubt they’ve ever enforced it. And sure, they have all those restrictions in the TOS, but so does every ISP. It’s just smart business policy to have your “legal-bases” covered.
The wording says ‘throughput **may** be limited’, it does not say it **will* be limited.
And their wording ‘Internet browsing does not include: ….applications that denigrate network capacity or functionality.” makes it obvious that they won’t let somebody destroy their network because they said it was “unlimited”.
One could easily download 5GB in 1 day, by downloading at half-speed…
My download rates on my Cricket Kyocera KPC650 were a little faster (~200kbps) than my Cricket UM100C USB modem, and I usually pulled a nice stable 140KB/sec… I frequently performed online speedtests, and I consistently got about 155KB/sec (1250kbps (+/- 30kbps).
At 140KB/sec, here what that gets me:
Data Time
140 KB / 1 second
8.2 MB / 1 minute
492 MB / 1 hour
5.9 GB / 12 hours
11.8 GB / 1 day
82 GB / 7 days (1 week)
350 GB / 30 days
I *could* download 10GB/day. In reality, I don’t think I ever downloaded more than 1 or 2GB, and that was really needing a torrent or something..
I happened to have my cricket internet shared amongst the 3 laptops in my hours, and we were all happy campers.
Of course, we’re much happier now with cable iternet… and cricket voice service of course.
Bottom line… I think cricket really does mean “unlimited”, in the sense of “unlimited usage with good intentions”… If somebody is streaming HD tv 4 or 5 hours a night, racking up 2GB/day, and maybe 30GB!/mo, I don’t think they are any kind of problem, because that’s what the average person does these days… But if you say, 30GB/mo limit, then whoa… that’s a lot, I wonder if I can even download that much, and you’re gonna have people trying to reach their cap, instead of worrying about going over it.
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Now if only they would un-cap all of the phones, which used to have the same speeds as broadband cards (if the phone was capable, which meant a flashed phone, or I suppose a cricket razr, razr2, rokr, slvr or krzr).
About 4 months ago we saw our evdo speeds on phones drop to about 180kbps-200kbps! That’s 5x times slower! That’s not a cap, that’s a jack! But we couldn’t really complain to anyone, since they don’t officially sell/support a single handset capable of evdo/broadband speeds. And since none of the Cricket-branded handsets support tethering (it is disabled at the firmware level, something no other carrier does), why’d they cap?
-beezl
anyone know how to network cricket usb internet. to a work group with 2 computers?
help please.
i do have the $60/m with cricket and i do travel alot ,never had aproblem compare with nextel and sprint ,i love them no contract amazing iam sure they will take over soon