Cricket's $50 Unlimited Broadband Plan Now Available at Best Buy

by jessica on Sun, 2010-03-28 05:00
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Beginning today, March 28, you can head to your local Best Buy store to purchase Cricket Broadband's $50 monthly Internet service plan. All-inclusive, Cricket's Internet service plan includes all fees and telecom taxes and provides you with unlimited high-speed wireless Internet access without a signed contract, credit check or overage fees.

Cricket also has the Cricket A600 modem available at Best Buy for $69.99 with no activation fee. $50.00 top-up cards are also available for this product at Best Buy. Cricket Broadband works with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 plus Mac OS 10.3.9 and higher.

"Cricket is very pleased to expand our offerings in Best Buy to include Cricket Broadband at industry-leading value," said Al Moschner, Cricket's chief operating officer. "We believe our new Cricket Broadband product is reinventing how customers purchase broadband. More than 600 thousand Cricket customers are currently enjoying the benefits of unlimited high-speed Internet access with Cricket Broadband."

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Submitted by Drainage (not verified) on Sun, 2010-03-28 14:05.

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Cricket VERY LIMITED Broadband

Submitted by PhoenixRising (not verified) on Mon, 2010-07-05 12:43.

Cricket is falsely advertising UNLIMITED BROADBAND. The truth is they only provide what any of the other air modem providers do, and that is 5GH a month. Oh yeah, and those of you who have been paying 60$ a month for 10GH....well they decided that you are only getting 7.5GH now....and they do not tell you until you have exceeded the new limit. Then your BW gets cut down to a trickle for weeks. They are LYING outright and cheating their customers. They do not deliver what they promise. I will not be surprised when there is a class action law suit presented against them.

Oh what else they do not tell

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2010-09-02 10:25.

Oh what else they do not tell you is that if you over your bandwidth allotment they take it out of the next month till you are at zero. So not only do you drop to a trickle you continue to move that slow after you pay for your fresh month. My trickle speed is 13.3 kbps. That is 5 times BELOW dial up. If you want mobile broadband DO NOT GET IT FROM CRICKET!!!!

CRICKET COMPUTER BROADBAND

Submitted by GJ (not verified) on Mon, 2010-09-06 08:18.

CRICKET COMPUTER BROADBAND AS THIS IS MY EXPERIENCE: ON MAY 2, 2009, I
ENROLLED WITH CRICKET AND RECEIVED
THE A600 MODEM. CONNECTED. AND SOON
DISCOVERED THAT I WAS NOT GETTING ANY BAR STRENGTH. CALLED CRICKET,
THEY SENT A FIELD TECHNICIAN, DID
TEST AND TOLD ME: "THE TOWER IS LESS THAN 4 MILE AWAY AND YOU ARE NOT GETTING STRONG ENOUGH SIGNAL, BUY
A100 MODEM, BUY AN ANTENNA AND PUT IT ON THE ROOF. AFTER MORE THAN $300 WITH INSTALLATION, MY SIGNAL STRENGTH INCREASED 2 BARS AND NEVER MORE. BUT I LEARNED THAT SIGNAL STRENGTH HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH THE RECEPTION, YOU CAN HAVE 25 BARS AND CRICKET WILL SAY YOU HAVE UNLIMITED USE BUT AFTER 5G'S WE WILL LOWER YOUR SPEED. WELL, I DO SPEEDTEST TO SEE WHAT I AM GETTING FROM CRICKET, ON MAY 6, 2009 DOWNLOAD I WAS GETTING 59kbps. THEN AFTER ANTENNA INSTALLATION JULY 29, 2009, 60kbps. ON AUG 10, 2010 CALLED CRICKET AND THEY SAID THEY HAVE CHANGED PLANS $40 FOR 2 1/2 G'S
$50 FOR 5G'S AND $60 FOR 7.5G'S AND FOR $60 WE WILL RESTORE YOU BACK TO NORMAL AND YOU WON'T HAVE TO WAIT 27 DAYS TO BUILD BACK NORMAL. NEVER HAVE I BEEN BACK TO NORMAL. AFTER OVER $300 OUTSIDE ANTENNA AND A100 MODEM STILL GETTING 60kbps AND NOW PAYING $60 A MONTH FOR SAME AS BEFORE. AT END OF MONTH BYE BYE CRICKET. THINK TWICE BEFORE ENROLLING IN CRICKET SERVICES!!!!
CRICKET COMPUTER MODEMS SERVICES DON'T WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Too SLOW, Poor Service

Submitted by JP (not verified) on Thu, 2010-12-30 13:38.

I bought a Cricket modem at Best Buy and went on the $50 plan. I was able to watch a couple of videos/TV shows on Hulu and then You Tube before it slowed to a snail's pace. You Tube in particular was no better than dial up.

This month (just six months after buying the modem) it completely broke. I went to the local Cricket store to buy a new one--they refused to sell it me, claiming I would have to go to the store I bought the original one at. Little problem with that, the store is about 10-15 miles from where I live and don't have a car.

So I bought the new modem from the Radio Shack two doors down from the Cricket store (insane). Good luck trying to activate a new modem. The customer disservance rep couldn't locate my previous account despite having my name, address, DOB, and Social Security number (why do they need that, anyway?). Turns out that despite spelling my first and last name the foreign guy I was talking to misspelled it.

And this was after I spelled it letter for letter and after he repeated the spelling correctly to me.

Long story short, I had to establish a completely new account, and lost the $50 I paid for December and had to get a new top up card and pay another $50 for December.

Not to mention that each time the disservice rep told me the modem was acitivated, I'd get off the phone (thinking everything was set) and try to log on; kept getting a message on my computer that the modem wasn't activated. My final time calling I insisted that we were not getting off the phone until my modem was activated.

By this time I was furious and my hands were shaking. That's how angry I was, and I am a normally easy going person.

Going back to Broadband speeds--the box with my new modem stated that under the $50 plan:

A. 250 hours of web browsing or

B. 1,200 mp3 downloads or

C. 20 half hour video downloads.

Which, I suppose, means that after say 400 hours of web browsing, and 20 half hour videos you get throttled. It's the combination of things you do online.

Let's get to the rolling usage problem--you'd think that if you went over the 5 GB usuage for the month it would revert to 0 at the start of the new billing period. NOPE. Often it's not restored until mid-month.

I you buy the $40 a month plan you can forget about watching videos. The usuage level is only 2.5 GB.

The only reason I keep it is because Best Buy (wonderful company, BTW) told me I couldn't use dial up with a laptop. Besides, I like the modbility of using a wireless modem. So if you only need Internet service to check emails and basic stuff, not videos or anything, Cricket might be the way to go. If you enjoy watching a lot of videos, not the best option.

Either way, Cricket says they offer UNLIMITED broadband. Unlimited Broadband should be unlimited, without usage fees. Their ads should indicate that you revert to dial up speeds or less after 5 GB. Cricket is limited Broadband.

Now if only Cricket had the same helpful employees that Radio Shack and Best Buy have...

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