Help with Cricket and phone please?

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ilovem&m

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I'm thinking about switching to Cricket but I have some questions.

1. The coverage maps are not very detailed, will I have good coverage at home (zip 85018) and visiting (zip 92069?)

2. My phone is a Motorola V9M which I can flash to Cricket. It's a dual band phone. If I got an unlimited plan I should have:

talk
long distance
text & pix
mobile web
premium extended coverage
caller ID, call waiting, call forwarding, 3-way calling & voicemail

Will all of these function as they should? If not, which ones won't?

Thanks for any help!
 
It won't have full premium extended coverage because alot of markets for cricket and metropcs are aws, and your phone is not a tri-band phone.

If cricket says they have coverage in your area, it is generally pretty good, and everything else is already included in most plans, but you won't really know until you try it.

Looks like both areas are covered, San Diego has really good coverage, I do not have any personal experience for phoenix, but I would guess it is pretty good..
 
Thanks but unfortunately, the coverage map provided isn't detailed enough. San Marcos isn't anywhere near San Diego, it's near Oceanside and Escondido and the maps show insufficient details there and show coverage in some areas but not in others.... Phoenix should be OK but...

For comparison, T-Mobile has detailed maps, I was able to find my exact location on their coverage map and determine I had no coverage although only a block east or north shows good coverage. That's what I need in a coverage map, if I'd gone to T-Mobile and bought a phone and plan I would have got home and found out it didn't work!

If T-Mobile can show coverage in that much detail why can't anyone else? :confused:

So now I need a reply from a resident of the zip codes or someone who's familiar with the areas...
 
More investigation convinces me that Cricket probably won't do for me.

Thanks to GeXX for the help and to Howard Forums for ALL the help over the years!
 
In my area, Central Texas, Cricket works well down the I-35 corridor but once u get out in the "sticks" or off main highways/roaRAB my phone is useless.
 
you're incorrect. cricket will work perfectly.

i have coverage on the 15 until past escondido. i have coverage from phoenix really far, and then it goes on verizon roaming. the 8 is spotty until around yuma. the 8 between mexicali and lakeside is terrible, but voice/roaming works.

i lived in arizona for 7 years and cricket has amazing coverage. i even get EVDO in coolidge. san diego has excellent coverage and i've been here 3 years. i travel back and forth many times a year, and my only annoyance is the sprint coverage right outside of SD is terrible. Verizon is the arizona roaming carrier and its great.

by the way there is no AWS coverage out here, i hate when people throw out AWS information for new people that it doesn't apply to. i use a touch pro on cricket in arizona and california just fine.
 
I just got Cricket on March 31, and I am really disappointed in it. If I am in town (Bastrop, TX) or on highway into Austin, it works great. It barely works at my house and when I go the other direction my phone turns into a brick within a few miles. I had Straight Talk and I am pretty sure I am going to take my Cricket phone back and go back to S.T. I had coverage anywhere and everywhere I went with it. Just hate that the phones leave so much to be desired although Cricket's aren't much better.
 
OP, why don't you buy a Cricket phone which has full function and less problem. Because you get first month free so the final price of a new phone actually does not cost you an arm or leg.
 
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