Is Cricket Wireless a good cell phone provider?

by brettneilson

I have to get my own cell phone plan, but I’m really poor. Cricket has a plan where I can get unlimited talk, text, and mobile internet for $ 40 a month. Should I get it? I’m in college and live in the Chicago area, so most of my calls are made in this basic area. Their phones are all lame looking, but for the price, I’ll deal with an ugly phone as long as it works. Will it work???

Answer by jilli
Cricket is a pretty good company.But im not sure if it will work there.Check the coverage maps on the site.

Answer by Jordan
Definitely, I have one of those and it’s awesome. see all of the reviews on links first and forth here: www.cellphone-plans-guide.co.cc

Hope that helps you as much as it helped me

Answer by larrymcp
I thought I would take this opportunity to warn you off of Cricket. I signed up with Cricket just 3 months ago, and WOW, I’m already thinking of leaving. Cricket has been almost laughably horrible; I mean you could make a sitcom about how bad it is.

They routinely overbill me, so I have to call customer service to get it corrected… but their customer service staff doesn’t have the ability to fix the billing problem. Also, their voice-mail system keeps deleting my messages before I’ve heard them, and I’ve called customer service for that problem (many times), but they don’t have the ability to fix that either.

Cricket is so bad, it’s almost funny. I would say, no-go on the Cricket.

To read hundreds of other similar stories, you can Google “Cricket Wireless Problems” and that’ll probably scare you off for good.

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I have a pc card from verizon and a HP OfficeJet 6500 series printer. I have been unsuccessful trying to connect the two. First is this even possible and second, if it is how is it done. Thanks for the responses.

Answer by CanadaRAM
You’re talking about two different types of wireless

The printer works on WiFi

The Verizon card is doing wireless data through EVDO or 3G or whatever cellular data plan you have.

Printing to the printer doesn’t have naything to do with the Verizon card. Does your laptop have WiFi built in? Check your printer instruction manual for setting up WiFi access from the laptop.

Answer by heliooceanrocks
Well the wireless card from Verizon is a EV-DO 3G wireless card and only connects to the internet via Verizon cellular service. You need to do this through a wireless router. If you do’t have one I would recommend it. With the wireless router you can connect as many computer as you want to one central computer in your house. You just have to make sure that you have all of the computers on the network.

If your computer doesn’t have wifi you can buy a wifi USB receiver:about $ 10-$ 15. A wireless router would cost you about $ 40-$ 60. I would talk to a professional at Best Buy or Radio Shack before buying this stuff or setting up.

Answer by Dr Macinyasha
It’s not possible. The Verizon card uses cellular phone technology called CDMA or EvDo. The printer and most wireless computer networks use WiFi. Completely different technologies that operate on totally different channels. Imagine the cell card as operating on channel 9 on your TV, while WiFi operates on channel 240.

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