Unlimited Mobile Phone Companies - Cricket Wireless, Revol Wireless, Metropcs, Pocket Communications (Paperback)

Chapters: Cricket Wireless, Revol Wireless, Metropcs, Pocket Communications. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Cricket Communications, Inc. founded in 1999, provides wireless services to about 4.6 million customers in all US states. The company is a subsidiary of Leap Wireless, utilizing its CDMA 1X and 1xEV-DO networks. Cricket uses a flat rate billing method, offering rate plans from $30 to $60 per month before taxes by way of month-to-month contracts only; it does not require credit checks or long-term service contracts as other service providers in the U.S. The company recently launched the first Advanced Wireless Services network, in Oklahoma City. Also the company went nationwide with roaming agreements on March 23rd 2010. In 2010, Cricket announced it will debut two new smartphones to their wireless lineup. The Kyocera Z 0 (Zi-O) will be Cricket and Kyocera's first Android phone. The phone will run on Cricket's 3G EVDO network, and will also have Wi-Fi capabilities. The other available smart phone will be the Blackberry Curve, which will work on Cricket's EVDO network. Cricket covers about 90% of the United States using roaming agreemeents with MetroPCS and Sprint Nextel, and only has broadband coverage in many major metropolitan areas. It still limits service to people where they are in a Cricket Coverage Zone. In August 2006, Leap Wireless participated in FCC Auction 66, which distributed Advanced Wireless Services spectrum. The company won 99 licenses. This will expand their coverage to 27 additional markets. Services have already launched in Oklahoma City, Las Vegas, Nevada, and South Texas along with Beaumont. Service to Baltimore and Washington, D.C., launched in June 2009. It plans to have the remaining markets rolled out by the en...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=285595