Cricket Broadband
Prepaid Mobile Broadband Review
With a pretty chic website/interface, Cricket is like the attractive person you meet that also has good manners.
They make a great first impression.
Cricket Wireless Plans & Prices
Cricket is even cheaper than broadband carriers like Sprint, Verizon or AT&TCricket Wireless offers sort of a unlimited mobile broadband plan for $40/month.
Like manna falling from the heavens it seems almost too good to be true.
There are some stipulations we'll get into here.
Cricket's mobile broadband is a mixture of EVDO Rev. A and EVDO Rev. 0 speeds. That means it'll be faster in some areas and not as fast in some.Cricket operates on a CDMA network. It's the same technology that Verizon, Sprint and Alltel use.
To be exact, the mobile broadband technology is EVDO Revision A / EVDO Revision 0 which offers average speeds of 600-1400 Kbps downloading and 500-800 Kbps uploading.
The absolute maximum download is 3.1 Mbps while the max upload is 1.8 Mbps. While this is pretty comparable to a DSL connection only portable, real world speeds have been known to differ from advertised speeds. Read on for the finer details of Cricket Broadband Speed.
Cricket's 3G coverage is limited. While it may not work out for road warriors, if you don't travel outside the coverage area, it could replace your regular contract mobile broadband.Welcome to Cricket mobile broadband's Achilles heel. Cricket 3G coverage is limited. If you take a look at their map, you'll see the circles of where it’s available.
If you're off in the rural area, then tough luck. As a matter of fact, you don't even have to be in a rural area. Heck, you could be in Miami and not have service.
Read on to use a tool that'll let you know if you can get Cricket 3G coverage.
Cricket offers the UM100 and the A600. Two USB cards that none of the major carriers have.
At the time of this review, Cricket used to offered two broadband cards:
1. A600 (USB Broadband Card)
2. UM 185c (USB Broadband Card)
These are two cards that I haven't reviewed before. Click on through for some interesting tidbits on Cricket Broadband Cards.
Check out the Prepaid Mobile Broadband Comparison to see how Cricket matches up against the other prepaid mobile broadband carriers out there.
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Cricket Speed is Outstanding and Reliable (User Review)
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I chose Cricket Broadband services because it was always reliable and I feel that it is the best in cellular, broadband and wireless services. I had At&...
Avoid Cricket! (User Review)
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The $40 a month seemed reasonable compared to Verizon and I liked not having to commit to a contract.
Only problem:
Horrible coverage even in one ...
Cricket is Not Worth the Money
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I bought the modem for $60 and was told I could return it and cancel if it didn't work.
Well, it didn't work.
The dial up service was faster than ...
Cricket... Not the Best
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Why did you get it?
I bought the Cricket Mobile Broadband because I travel a lot and need to have a connection to the internet.
How it meet,...
Do Not Get Cricket (User Review)
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Their service is almost as bad as their customer service.
I have been having difficulties since I got the service. I get the same run around every ...
