AIO has started to merge with Cricket

[kate]

Here is their official site with info about the merger between AIO and Cricket:

Home | New Cricket Merger Info

 

[DonB]

Here is also more info, and go figure I'm switching to AIO at the end of the month, LOL

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/03/14/att-will-shut-down-its-aio-budget-brand-and-combine-its-assets-with-cricket-after-leap-wireless-acquisition/

 

[timmyh318]

Got a text on my aio phone about it today. All it said was aio is now cricket! Then gave a link. Carrier label hasnt changed yet. This is a much bigger deal for the 5 mil or so on cricket than people on aio. Nothing but the name will change for aio users. Cricket users though will have to get new handsets and by the sounds of it really soon. Should be intersting to see what they do with the new cricket and if they will go right after t mobiles metro pcs. I also carry a metro phone and find myself using my aio phone more and more due to better speeds even with being throttled to only 8mbps. Should be interesting.

 

[DonB]

Yes it will be interesting. I switch my wife 6 months ago, and her service blew my Sprint away and was not even close, thus why I'm leaving and paying the ETF BC I still have a year in my contract, the saving alone will pay the ETF, so time to move on, I have waited to long.

I assume Cricket will have to change handsets BC they are a CDMA based company, I am sure Cricket members will not be to thrilled about this.

My wife did not get that text yet, umm interesting.

 

[DonB]

Looks like the wife did get the text and did not mention it.

 

[sonasam300]

I'm currently on cricket and man are people pissed (well those that recently purchased an s4). I myself was upgrading next year anyways so it's not that bad. I look forward to 4G coverage but I don't know much about aio. Well nothing actually but it'll be interesting.

 

[timmyh318]

Aio is alot like gophone. Any aio branded or att branded phone will work with aio. They have 3 plans 40 dollars gets you unlimited talk text and web but only the first 500 mb are at high speed. 50 gets the same but you get 2.5 gb of high speed. 60 is the same but you get 5gb of high speed. After you use up your high speed data for the month you are throttled down to a max of 256kbps download speed fpr the remainder of that month. Now also for your highspeed data if you are on lte you are capped at a max speed of 8mbps. Hspa+ is capped at 4 mbps. Alot of people hate that but honestly you never notice a difference. Its plenty fast enough for anything you wanna do. As per the merger att only has to honor crickets plans for as long as they keep the cdma network active and it seems that wont be long at all so these will be the plans cricket is getting. Its not bad though.