Cricket ATT GSM

[rshimizu12]

I am thinking of switching to Cricket's new GSM service. Cricket does not offer tower roaming for data. So I am concerned the Internet speed will be slow sometimes. Cricket's GSM service wiill not allow tethering. So I a uncertain if it is possible with a Android app. The other issue that there is a 8mb max download speed. Not really sure how much of a issue this will be since I do not watch many videos.

 

[kate]

For coverage Cricket Wireless uses AT&T towers so they will have the same reception as AT&T in your city.

8mb is fine for watching videos.

 

[rshimizu12]

This is true, but all carriers use other carriers towers. So it"s quite probable that yt? He data will be slow in some areas. This one reason why companies that run on T-Mobile's network have very good speed.

 

[Gmash]

8mb is about 4X faster than any speeds I've ever seen on Cricket lol.

 

[kate]

I could have worded my last response better - I meant that Cricket will have the same coverage as AT&T maps show, excluding roaming areas for data.

For data speeds every city is different so it's hard to say how fast/slow your speeds will be. But there will always be areas with poor reception which will result in slower data.

As for roaming - if Cricket doesn't allow data roaming then you won't have any data at all when you're not connected to Cricket/AT&T towers. WiFi would be your only option for data then.

Tethering - you can get the AT&T GoPhone $60 plan that allows tethering if that's a requirement for you. I don't know of any tethering apps but there probably are some that will work with Cricket, however you still run the risk if them detecting that you're tethering.

8mb is about 4X faster than any speeds I've ever seen on Cricket lol.

Is that the old CDMA Cricket, or the new Cricket Wireless which is AIO/AT&T?

 

[Gmash]

CDMA. We never got 4G in my area.

 

[badutahboy]

For coverage Cricket Wireless uses AT&T towers so they will have the same reception as AT&T in your city.

8mb is fine for watching videos.

I recently switched from Tmobile to AT&T (through straight talk and now Cricket). I have yet to find a place where AT&T's service isn't better than T-mobile's.

As for data speed, we're restricted to 8MB on AT&T, but that's plenty to do anything you would want to do on a phone. My GF only has 8MB at home, and we're still able to stream netflix, play playstation, and stream youtube all simultaneously without issue.

The other nice thing is that since AT&T throttles us to 8MB, we rarely see less than that. Whether I'm on LTE or HSPA+, I usually speed test at 7.5MB or higher. With Tmo, I usually tested around 12MB, but you never really know if you're going to get 3MB or 20 MB at any given time.

AND, if you hit your bandwidth cap, the same applies. We're throttled to 128k, but you actually get that speed, which is usable for web surfing, voice search, and usually even streaming music. On T-mobile, once I hit my cap, I couldn't do ANYTHING. Most speed tests clocked me below 56k if I was throttled. Simply trying to get gasprices.com (a simple site) to load made me want to punch babies.

 

[Hogan773]

I recently switched from Tmobile to AT&T (through straight talk and now Cricket). I have yet to find a place where AT&T's service isn't better than T-mobile's.

As for data speed, we're restricted to 8MB on AT&T, but that's plenty to do anything you would want to do on a phone. My GF only has 8MB at home, and we're still able to stream netflix, play playstation, and stream youtube all simultaneously without issue.

The other nice thing is that since AT&T throttles us to 8MB, we rarely see less than that. Whether I'm on LTE or HSPA+, I usually speed test at 7.5MB or higher. With Tmo, I usually tested around 12MB, but you never really know if you're going to get 3MB or 20 MB at any given time.

AND, if you hit your bandwidth cap, the same applies. We're throttled to 128k, but you actually get that speed, which is usable for web surfing, voice search, and usually even streaming music. On T-mobile, once I hit my cap, I couldn't do ANYTHING. Most speed tests clocked me below 56k if I was throttled. Simply trying to get gasprices.com (a simple site) to load made me want to punch babies.

Very helpful to me, thanks. So you seem to have good luck with GSM Cricket in terms of data speeds.

Do you know what the other poster is referring to in terms of "no data tower roaming on Cricket"?