CRICKET COMMUNICATIONS


'Cricket Communications, Inc.' is a subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, Inc. It offers wireless service without credit checks or long-term commitments. Customers can purchase plans giving them access to unlimited local calls; unlimited U.S. long distance; unlimited text, picture and instant 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 landline phone service and using their cellular phone as their primary phone. The average Cricket subscriber uses over 1,500 minutes a month.
Cricket launched its first market in 1999 and provides service to more than 2.5 million customers in parts of 25 states on Leap’s CDMA 1X and 1xEV-DO networks.

Contents
About Parent Company, Leap
Coverage Areas
References
External links

About Parent Company, Leap


Leap Wireless International, Inc. is a public telecommunications company that provides wireless services through its subsidiaries, Cricket and Jump Mobile. Leap was founded in 1998.
Leap has an all-digital CDMA 1X and 1xEV-DO network that has expanded significantly in the past few years. Leap currently offers service in parts of 25 states, and has recently purchased spectrum at the AWS auction giving Leap coverage of an estimated 110 million potential customers. Leap Wireless is headquartered in San Diego, California, and is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol LEAP.
Cricket Communications was founded in 1999 and launched later that year in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Coverage Areas


Cricket provides service to the following areas:[1]

Arizona: Phoenix, Tucson

Arkansas: Little Rock, Hot Springs, Pine Bluff, Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Jonesboro

California: Fresno, Visalia, Modesto, Merced, San Diego

Colorado: Colorado Springs, Denver, Pueblo

Georgia: Columbus, Macon

Idaho: Boise

Indiana: New Albany

Iowa: Council Bluffs

Kansas: Wichita

Kentucky: Lexington, Louisville

Mississippi: Olive Branch, Southaven, Tunica

Missouri: Kansas City

Nebraska: Lincoln, Omaha

Nevada: Reno, Sparks, Carson City

New Mexico: Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Santa Fe

New York: Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse

North Carolina: Charlotte, Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem, Raleigh-Durham

Ohio: Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus

Oklahoma: Tulsa

Oregon: Eugene, Salem, Portland

Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh

South Carolina: Charleston, Rock Hill

Tennessee: Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville, Clarksville

Texas: Austin, Bryan, College Station, El Paso, Houston, San Antonio, Temple, Killeen

Utah: Salt Lake City, Provo, Ogden

Washington: Spokane, Vancouver

West Virginia: New Cumberland, Wellsburg

References


1. Cricket Wireless Coverage Maps

External links



Leap Wireless

Cricket Communications

This article provided by Wikipedia. To edit the contents of this article, click here for original source.

psst.. try this: add to faves