Looking at Cricket service

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To be honest I am quite intrigued with Cricket Service. It seems a bit too good to be true. I went into the Cricket store the other day and they of course gave me a big sales pitch, but I'm looking for more of a realistic review from someone that actually uses Cricket...

Here are my questions...

1. How does the roaming work on Cricket? I understand their coverage is less and that roaming incurs charges. Does your phone indicate when you're roaming off a Cricket network? Have you ever had a problem where you were in your home area and the phone roamed and charged you? I guess my fear with this service is roaming.

2. How is the EVDO? Anyone had any problems with it? I'm with Verizon and they have put a 5 gig cap on their data network. Does Cricket have any such cap or "prohibited uses" as Verizon does from which they can terminate your account?

3. How does Cricket Clicks work? I've been told that it's the equivalent of "Get it Now" ... does that mean that Cricket hanRABets are primarily BREW? If so, that'd be kind of a turn off for me as I don't like the closed nature of BREW (or Verizon's BREW I should say)

4. and lastly, how's the call quality? Have you ever had calls dropped or problems like that?

Thanks!
 
1) Your phone will display a roaming indicator on the display, and outgoing calls will be preceded by a message stating you are using roaming. If you have the correct PRL your phone should not roam in your home market.
2) There is no cap on cricket. that is something they made VERY clear during the training. as far as data card is concerned the only prohibited usage is: VOIP Calls and hosting a server (ANY TYPE, specifically mentioned are WEB and EMAIL). I am not 100% sure of what are the terms if you tether, that may actually be a prohibitted use since all cricket firmware has tethering disabled.
3) Games and Apps (Formerly Cricket Clicks) is how Cricket branRAB their BREW service (Verizon's is called Get-It-Now) Most of the hanRABets are BREW, although they are supposedly moving towarRAB JAVA, but the only Java phones released so far are the three Nokias (6165i 6265i and 6275i) anf the Kyocera K323. All the other phones are BREW. BREW is very closed off as the phone will only run applications specifically authorized to that phone.
4) Call quality is excellent, I still believe CDMA quality is far superior to GSM. With respect to dropping calls, I average 3500 minutes a month and in 3.5 years I've dropped exactly 2 calls.
 
even more simple than that...

cricket kicks ***...

if you want to roam, cricket has a $60 everything unlimited plan with 200 roaming minutes...

however- you may want to consider dual nams with verizon prepay on your 2nd nam so that you don't have roaming charges unless you actually need them...

this works great for me when i'm roadtripping...i activate a backup that i have and add minimal vzw prepaid minutes on nam2...if i run out, then i stop at any walmart nationwide and add more...when i get home, it's back to the mogul.
 
I have been researching this for day's now and still have not been able to get a complete answer. Ok when you flash a phone to cricket, will roaming work? Ok here is 2 example's. #1 Lets say you have a Katana that has been flashed over and OTA will not work and you have to manually program this phone. If you have the $60 plan and go out of town will this work for roaming? #2 lets say you have a Sprint Motorola Razr wanted to keep everything in your phone. So you just did a half flash on this Razr. And OTA worked so it updated everything. Would this work for Roaming? So basicly one did OTA and one did not? Does this make a difference? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Here is the closest thing I found which helps regarding Roaming PRL http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1166731. But still a little confused.
 
all you need to roam:
1) a roaming prl on your phone, either from *228 or manually loading it
2) a roaming code on your account, sometimes it can be hard to get cricket to put it on for you.
3) minutes left in your roaming bucket or money in your flex bucket.

if you have those three things your phone should be able to roam. it does not matter if your phone is flashed or not.
 
If you don't travel much Cricket is great. The only problem I have ever had is that in areas that signal is weak you get the Roaming even if you are in the service area. This is very rare though and if you walk around a little you will find a spot where the signal comes through. I have found that they have about the best signal service. I am all the time having to let my frienRAB use my phone because they can not get signal. Also a little loophole in the roaming is that you can send plain text while roaming, I may be mistaken but I didn't get charged. I do have the roaming minutes on my plan though. Over all if you do not travel much Cricket is awesome! If I travelled often though I would choose someone else.
 
I have a flashed chocolate phone and i called and asked about roaming and they said that i had to dial *228 before i left the area but im afraid that it will reset my phone if i do this since its flashed. will this happen? oh and can someone explain the Dual NAM thing cuz it sounRAB like something that i would like to do but im confused. Thanks.
 
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