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Cricket inks $126M deal to launch EVDO Rev. A
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Cricket Wireless, a subsidiary of Leap Wireless, inked a five-year agreement to purchase up to $126 million in equipment, services and software from Alcatel-Lucent. The carrier is expanding its network and upgrading some parts of it to EVDO Rev. A. The upgrade will allow Cricket to provide high-speed data services like VoIP, Internet access, mobile video and music. Alcatel-Lucent will provide installation, engineering, training and technical support services to the carrier, too. The VoIP capabilities of Rev. A seem particularly compelling for a flat-rate service provider, like Cricket, since moving subscribers off of a busy circuit-switched network could prove lucrative over time.
For more on Cricket's Rev. A plans:
- read this press release
Comments
Posted by Colin Kerr | July 6, 2007 - 4:35pm
Hope that helps, because Cricket's "coverage" area is susceptible to completely losing coverage--even on major roads and parts of town. Plus, their phones are pieces of crap, so if you want something decent, you have to pay an obscene amount of money for a higher-end phone without a discount. On top of that, their national customer service line is inefficient and they lose your bill payments and consequently disconnect your service (and require you to go back to the store to fix it). And while I imagine it's different for different stores, my Cricket store was completely ill-trained, completely unconcerned with customer satisfaction, and I even saw one of their employees playing Nintendo DS in front of me.
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