Cricket launches unlimited mobile broadband
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It’s tough to figure what you’ll get when a company says unlimited. Yes, that’s meant for you, Verizon, you of the “we say unlimited, but we really mean 5 GB.” Now that that’s settled and others in the industry are considering data caps, a perfect opportunity is presented to Cricket: Truly unlimited data. And that’s what they’re doing with their mobile broadband laptop cards.
“We expect our customers will be heavy, heavy data users, and we’ve never thought limits were a good idea,” said Cricket senior manager for corporate communications Greg Lund.
This is on the EVDO Rev 0 network, so it’s not quite as fast as Verizon’s mobile broadband. However, what it lacks in speed it makes up for with peace of mind. No longer will you have to keep some foggy mental record of your Internet usage, as to avoid some 5 GB cap.
I still can’t decide what the best part is: The unlimitedness, or the price? It’s just $35 a month. Unfortunately, it’s only available in a few regions: Nashville, Spokane, Central Valley of California, Santa Fe/Albuquerque New Mexico, and Portland Oregon, with Tulsa Oklahoma coming soon.
It’s a damn shame that Leap didn’t win any spectrum in the 700 MHz auction. That could have helped this mobile broadband initiative a bit.
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Posted on April 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am
..correction joe. ya cricket is cool for offering prepaid broadband on laptop cards (finally) but they do still have that 5GB cap:
“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.”
check it out for yourself: http://www.mycricket.com/cricketplans/details/broadband
(p.s.- alltel is the best prepaid company even over boost, metro, etc. for cost sake. for $20 a month i get unlimited nights/weekends and unlimited text with the option of unlimited mobile to mobile and to add any number to call unlimited all day and night and every day you can switch the number. all the features/benefits of a contract on prepaid..)
Posted on July 4th, 2008 at 5:01 am