Cricket Launches Unlimited Wireless Services in Chicago
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Leap Wireless International, Inc., the parent company of Cricket Communications, Inc., today announced that Cricket coverage in the greater Chicago area is substantially complete. Starting today, the Company will introduce its Cricket unlimited wireless services through the systematic rollout of retail outlets on a geographic basis, completing the initial distribution footprint over the next 30 days.
In the largest Cricket market to date, Chicagoans will now have access to unlimited, feature-packed 3G wireless voice and broadband services – all at affordable rates that provide great wireless value. Cricket service is offered in the Greater Chicago area by Denali Spectrum License Operations, LLC. , a company in which Leap has a majority, non-controlling beneficial interest.
In addition to covering the Greater Chicago area, there is now contiguous Cricket coverage stretching from more than 60 miles south of Chicago in Kankakee to as far north as central Wisconsin. The Cricket footprint, which covers approximately 16,255 square miles and nearly 10.4 million covered POPs in the Greater Chicago area, brings Cricket’s total national covered POPs to approximately 77.5 million.
Cricket rate plans range from $30 to $60 per month and include unlimited anytime minutes, unlimited U.S. long distance, unlimited text and picture messaging, unlimited text to Mexico, unlimited Mobile Web, unlimited directory assistance, nationwide roaming minutes and more — all without requiring signed contracts or credit checks. Cricket has more than a dozen devices available to Chicago area residents ranging from higher-end handsets to more affordable mobile phones.
In addition to unlimited mobile phone services, Cricket is also offering Cricket Broadband, providing customers’ unlimited Internet access anywhere in Cricket’s coverage areas on their desktop or laptop computers. The Cricket monthly broadband service plan is just $35 per month for customers who also have Cricket’s low-cost unlimited voice plans, and $40 per month as a stand-alone service.
Cricket is bringing more than 2,150 jobs to the area, including approximately 1,800 new positions created through the dealer network. With today’s initial launch, Cricket service will be available through 10 Cricket retail stores, 100 exclusive dealers and 50 standard dealers, as well as online at www.mycricket.com or via the telephone at 800-922-9169. As Cricket expands its retail distribution presence over the next 30 days; once the market is fully launched, Cricket service will be available at 27 direct retail stores and more than 650 dealers. With nearly all of the Chicago network operational at launch, the company will provide a high quality service experience from the start while it completes the distribution rollout.
