Cricket resources?

studentRN

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Okay, there are a couple of questions I'd like to have answered, and since there seem to be a few people that understand the service, I thought I'd ask.

1) Aside from employees having access to coporate e-mail, is there a site or other resource a customer can use to see what the company has in the works? Perhaps a non-marketing, up-to-date FAQ?

-It seems like, with as far behind as they remain, technologically, they'd have some way of notifying the public about what's looming on the horizon to keep customers excited, thus, loyal. The EVDO news was new to me, I didn't even think Cricket would be able to consider such an upgrade, especially with web access being so new.

2) I once heard someone say (years ago) that Cricket purchases only 72 channels on each tower, or something of the like. I think the point was that they rented the lines from other telecom agencies. Any clarification or myth-busting for this?

3) It seems like Cricket has a very minimalistic approach in all aspects of their coporate philosophy. Is this the low overhead approach to profit? Any hopes that this will change? Customer service and satisfaction is my largest complaint with the service.

I REALLY like Cricket. I've used the service for over five years, and am reluctant to switch to a more feature-rich service... however, the apparent lack of customer appreciation keeps me asking if the $60/month I'm paying is really worth it (including flex and insurance). I'd just like more practical information on the company, not press releases or complicated specifications.

I realize I'm asking for a lot here, also that some of this info could be uncovered though involved searching, but some more light neeRAB to be shed on the situation.

Thanks in advance if anyone can provide some information.
 
1) Cricket is generally a year or more behind other carriers technilogically. I'm not sure why they don't publish more information on what's coming since what they are launching is nothing other carriers haven't done. They are, however, working on new products - they have launched WAP, unlimited directory assistance, roaming (finally), international SMS etc in the recent past. With EVDO, pending, even more data centric products should be forthcoming.

2) Capacity on the towers is dependent on the amount of spectrum they own in a given market and the demand in the particular area. Cricket owns their equipment and will either build out sites or colo on an existing tower.

3) Cricket is about packing as much Value into their service offering as possible. Unfortunately, exceptional customer service is expensive (as it is in most industries) and as the 'value' play, it usually suffers. I doubt this will change in the near future.

Hope this helps -
 
trust me, even for employees like me they leave us all in the dark untill the last second, this site has way more info than the corp. emails
 
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