Corpus Christi and McAllen come first, followed by Laredo and several rural areas. Within 12 months, AT&T has committed to building out LTE in much of south Texas. The ultimate goal here is for AT&T to use all of Cricket's spectrum to pump up its LTE network. Don't worry just yet, though - remember AT&T will make this transition over the next year or so. Smartphone owners will get 'significant credits' to exchange their smartphone. For feature phone owners, AT&T will offer free feature phones in exchange for your old Cricket feature phone. Most other Cricket phones won't work on AT&T's network. What do I do with my phone now?Ĭricket iPhone owners (except for iPhone 4 owners) will be able to get an AT&T SIM card and use their existing phones. So, you'll get to keep it for a year or so. You get to keep your service plan until you suspend your service or have to switch to an AT&T-network-compatible phone. I'd assume that Cricket will become more like Aio rather than the other way around. We don't know what AT&T will do to music pricing for its new prepaid plans. AT&T has an unlimited downloadable music plan, Beats Music, but it costs $10 per month over a standard plan. Muve Music is Cricket's unlimited downloadable music feature. Those plans are on par with Cricket's current prices, except for Cricket's Muve Music feature and Cricket's free international texting. The FCC order didn't give details of AT&T's smartphone plans, but I'm pretty sure they'll look like Aio's current plans: $40/month for talk, text, and 500MB data, $50/month for 2.5GB data, and $60/month for 5GB data. In current Cricket CDMA markets, AT&T will also offer one unlimited voice-and-text plan below $40 for the next 12 months. What Happens to Aio Wireless, The Current AT&T Prepaid Brand?įor the next 18 months, AT&T will offer a nationwide, prepaid feature phone plan with unlimited talk, text and data (500MB at high speed) for $40. Within the next 12-18 months, AT&T will shut down Cricket's CDMA network and turn Cricket into AT&T's main prepaid brand, on AT&T's network.

Here's your guide to how things are going to change - including those who aren't AT&T or Cricket customers.Ĭricket runs a CDMA network, and AT&T runs a GSM network. AT&T's ingestion of small prepaid carrier Cricket Wireless closed yesterday, with the FCC issuing an extensive order revealing many of the promises AT&T made to get the deal through.

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