Cricket

The Cricket is a simple and affordable wireless cell phone service provider, offering customers and local businesses flat-rate, unlimited service over a high-quality, all-digital wireless network. The Cricket is the pioneer of unlimited anytime minutes, unlimited messaging and unlimited US long distance with no long-term commitments or credit checks required. Cricket offers subscribers access to a variety of the new handsets and feature rich mobile applications such as SMS (text messaging), instant messaging, picture messaging, ringtones, popular games, wallpapers, international long distance and roaming.

The Cricket customers use their wireless service differently than the other service provider customers. Based on company surveys, the average Cricket subscribers talk an average of 1,500 minutes per month which is more than double the industry average for wireless cell phone service providers. 93 percent of Cricket subscribers reported their Cricket wireless phone was their primary phone, compared to only 49 percent of traditional Cell Phones company subscribers.

The Cricket has produced an alternative to landline phone service and is rapidly becoming the nation's first and leading wireless home phone. The Cricket launched its first market in 1999 and it is currently offered in 22 states and it provides service to more than 2 million customers on Leap’s CDMA 1X and 1xEV-DO networks. The Cricket services are more efficient in US. The company are leading the national trend of shifting calls and minutes from traditional landlines service to wireless mobiles by offering a very affordable, unlimited, local wireless service.

It is a subsidiary of San Diego-based Leap Wireless International, Inc. The Cricket offers wireless service without credit checks or long-term commitments. Customers can buy plans providing them access to unlimited local calls, unlimited US long distance, unlimited text, instant and picture messaging and data as well as calling features such as voice mail, caller ID, call waiting, 3-way calling and Unlimited Mobile Web. All of this had lead many Cricket customers to getting rid of their landlines service and using the Cell Phones as their primary phone.

The Cricket's network covers more than 80% of Colorado, one of the company's largest service territories. The company is currently expanding the network with the goal of covering 98% of the state by the middle of 2008. The company, however, is in growth mode. Over the past 18 months, the company doubled its reach, expanding to fourteen new markets. The Cricket company plans to continue to enter new markets, such as Las Vegas, Minneapolis and Chicago over the next 2 years.

Cricket Communications provides calling features

• access to unlimited local calls
• unlimited U.S. long distance
• unlimited text, picture and instant messaging and data
• voice mail
• caller ID
• call waiting & 3-way calling
• Unlimited Mobile Web