How long have you been with Cricket?

2 years almost. Switching phones is easy. No contracts is nice. The only down is that you have to buy the phone fullsale.

But you just wait a few months and its down 25-75 $ and you go go go before they're out.
 
Since Noveraber 2002 Cricket, comfortable wireless....
Cricket unlimited $32.99
swapped it over to $25 plan when it came avail...
no long distance so I had a phone card and pin saved into phone, when you pressed and held call it used the phone card, typed in with a corabination of P's and W's...
handed off that Nokia 5170 and plan to GF she still uses it to this day.
 
mm i been with cricket for 4 years.. had at&t sometime in between for like 5 months and would pay 200+ every month got tired of it and went back to cricket....but when i first got it they didnt even have text lol
 
Well if you have good service, then it's not the lack of towers. SounRAB like a capacity issue. Too many people on the same site at the same time. I would guess CricKet has only a small amount of Spectrum in your area and for the particular site you are on, that just isn't enough Spectrum to work without capacity issues.

Just my guess.
 
most of crickets areas operate on 10MHz of spectrum. the industry did not think they would be able to do it, but cricket has proven them wrong. it is one of the reasons they use CDMA, as CDMA is much more efficient at using the available spectrum over the TDMA based GSM. anyways capacity should not caused dropped calls, (unless there is a handoff involved). capacity would just prevent you from being able to place a call on the first try or send incoming calls to vm.

if you are dropping calls it is likely that you are just losing reception for some reason, going inside a building that is blocking the signal is likely the culprit, but it could also be from a faulty hanRABet or network equipment.
if you haven't experienced it personally, it is probably just a rumor, there's a ton about cricket, like its owned by the government, or local law enforcement. and all the calls are tapped, and blah blah blah the government is coming for you (of course that's why they don't require a SSN or official photo id right?) the reality is people just don't believe it. cricket charges so much less than the big carriers there has to be something wrong with it? not the case. in the area I am in cricket has the highest call completion % of any carrier. they are able to respond to me within 24hrs regarding any coverage issues (so fer everytime the customer has been bsing me or lived more that 15 miles outside the covered area on the map)
 
Been using Cricket since AT&T Raped me for minutes i never used lol.. so thats been since, well i think mid 2001, whenever Cricket came to the Denver market, i switched and havent even considered moving to any other provider. Specially with EVDO coming to this market, now i really cant think of any reason as they've already expanded to cover a majority of the places in the state i goto and i rarely travel outside of the state so coverage is perfect for me :)

I wonder if i get some kinda special deal for being with them from the beginning? lol, extra free month of service? jk... but seriously for the price and the fact i really havent had hardly ANY issues with them in almost 8 years? I think that speaks for itself where i was calling other providers at least once a month for one reason or another.
 
I've been with cricket for 8 years, with a 1 year break in the middle when I switched to T-mobile. I came back as soon as my contract expired because T-mobile screwed up my bill EVERY SINGLE MONTH.. After 8 months, they refused to correct their billing errors, because "we've already given you plenty of credits".

For the last two years, I've been COMPLETELY happy with cricket... prior to that, it was a good deal, but an inferior service.
 
four years for me. Same nuraber and account and now i have my lil brother on my account to and its something like $100 a month for everything but really worth it. Ive used everyphone they have offered up to the razor thats when i started hacking my own phones. I love cricket and have seen them grow from nothing to a big competitor.
 
Started with uswest, now quest. Was one of the many that uswest was robbing back in day when they added services you didn't want to your line and than charged you for it. Had 2 lines 400 weekday and 1000 nights and weekenRAB per line, bill was to be $75, but since I was paying $350 a month and more, and not using half my time, I switched to sprint. Just before wap came out. Hesitated to get the wap for a few months, took forever for sprint to get it up on my phone, had to go in store, and then call tech support and tell support to talk to people in store. 1/2 hour later I get my phone back and it is fried. Turns off on own, or would go to standby screen while on call and wouldn't even show I was on the line. Took 4 months for sprint to replace my phone. In 01 I switched to a place called boomerang, lasted a couple months, been with cricket since. Down time in life, i ditched phone so no one could reach me (watched best friend die, and wife cheated on me) and then went back 4 years ago. Have 2 lines now, did have 3 but kid couldn't keep grades up, so he lost it. I can't fathom counting minutes anymore, nor do I ever worry about a bill. I use my phone like I use the bathroom, without thought. And to hear others tell me to cut call short cause they are running out of time.

Now other comp trying unlimited, and it is like $100 a month, just for talk. Most charge extra $20 a month for text, $15 a month for data, and just about anything else they can rape you with. $50 a month for TRUE unlimited, internet is better, can download straight from phone. The way I use it now, it would cost me $1k a month or more with someone else.
 
Yeah, I know the operate on a small amount of spectrum in most areas and you are correct that CDMA is better at it's use of spectrum over TDMA, but that wasn't the argument.

It's just a fact that even though CDMA can compress better than TDMA, all technologies have a limit and at some point will reach capacity.

I don't know exactly what is the culprit of the OP's problem, but that was my guess.

I know in some areas, where a particular providers service is popular, even with CDMA, if enough people are using it at the same time alot, you will suffer issues.

If CricKet gets enough customers in a certain area, even with CDMA, 10MHz at some point won't be enough.

Most likely sometime down the road, CricKet will go LTE and hopefully will help them with their 10MHz if they can't manage to buy more in their really popular markets.
 
Been with cricket, since they 1st opened back in 2000, They went out of business then they fought back in 2002!

so i'd say bout 8 years now!

Charlotte was one of the 1st cities to have cricket =]
 
Cricket came to tulsa in 2000. I wasnt too impressed and went ot a different carrier. Came back and LOVE it. Cant beat the price and it gets better every year.
 
first time post but got to start someware.i have been with cricket service since it started in memphis in 1997.So needless to say I've been with them for a long time.I have since then added my wife to my account and now my daughter and five more years prolly my son.I will have to say I have changed plans on my cricket account more times than I care to think about to better , and cheaper plans.
 
Gotta throw mine in with everyone else...started with cricket about 2 months after they started in the market (late 2000-2001) and, except for a few months here and there, have stayed with them the whole time. Yes, the big green couch was there, my g/f at the time and me were actually trying to talk the local dealer (who we got to know fairly well) into either selling us the couch they had in store or giving it to us outright...never worked though :(
 
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