Cricket Wireless Plans

Cricket Wireless is AT&T's prepaid brand, running on AT&T's own network infrastructure. Four plans start at $35/month, with unlimited available from $40. Phones start at $59.99. It's the prepaid option that comes with AT&T's towers behind it — minus the AT&T postpaid price tag.

Cricket Wireless is AT&T's in-house prepaid brand, running on AT&T's own towers — one of the cleaner network stories in the prepaid space. AT&T acquired Cricket in 2014 and has kept it as a separate storefront aimed at subscribers who want prepaid simplicity without the coverage trade-offs that come with some MVNOs. Four plans run from $35/month for limited data to $40/month for unlimited. Twenty-seven phones are available from $59.99, leaning toward mid-range Android and entry-level iPhones. The honest note: Cricket subscribers share AT&T infrastructure but sit behind AT&T postpaid accounts in network priority when a tower is congested. In most situations this doesn't register; in a packed stadium or a busy urban block it might. That's the standard prepaid arrangement across every major network, not specific to Cricket. Cricket has physical retail — stores in strip malls and shopping centers — in a way some prepaid competitors don't. For anyone who wants to walk in and walk out with a working phone, the storefront presence is a real advantage over carriers that exist only online.

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