Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Cricket still selling “unlimited wireless broadband” that isn’t

Cricket has a nasty habit of selling customers an unlimited mobile broadband service… that is limited to 5GB of usage per month. Today, the company announced it would be expanding its prepaid wireless broadband service to “big box” retail stores nationwide:

Cricket Broadband will soon be available in nearly 1,000 national retailer stores through a new all-inclusive $50 monthly service plan. The new plan will include all fees and taxes and provides unlimited Internet access without a signed contract or credit check. The Cricket A600 modem will be available as a grab-and-go offering for $69.99 with no activation fee. $50.00 top-up cards will also be available for this product...