Cricket Phone Plans

Cricket Phone offers several no-contract plans ranging from $35 per month up to $60 per month.

These plans are designed for those who use their phone a lot, but who don’t want or don’t qualify for a standard cell phone contract.

Coverage

You can check out the Cricket Coverage Maps - and see if Cricket is available in your city. Cricket is a regional provider so the coverage is a little spotty at present, but the company is growing fast. If you're in their area, they offer a good no contract relatively inexpensive service.

Phones

You can choose your Cricket Phone from a fairly large selection ranging from their most basic models for $40 to $50 up to phones like the Razr2 for $380. There is no big discount because there is no contract. You do get a small discount for buying the phones online, but that’s offset somewhat by the $15 activation fee.

Plans

Now for the plans themselves. The plans go up gradually in price depending on how many kinds of unlimited minutes you need. If you only need your local minutes to be unlimited and are willing to pay extra for long distance and roaming, then you could opt for their cheapest $35 per month plan. For $60 per month, you can get almost everything unlimited: local and long distance minutes, sms and picture messaging, no roaming in Cricket coverage areas (you do get 200 non-Cricket coverage roaming minutes). Alaska is not included in these plans, but I guess Hawaii is.

Result

Generally, if you need a no-contract phone with a choice of the fancier phones, give them a try.

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