Cricket Unlimited Comes to Chicago with Lots of Cheap Discount Deals

By Contributor Wireless and Mobile News on February 18, 2009 12:02 PM

Cricket Communications announced that Cricket coverage is now available in the greater Chicago area. Cricket will introduce its Cricket unlimited wireless services through the rollout of retail outlets on a geographic basis, completing the initial distribution footprint over the next 30 days. It looks like their plans may be the cheapest, best deals in the area, depending upon cell phone usage.

Cricket service will be available in the area through 10 Cricket retail stores, 100 exclusive dealers and 50 standard dealers, as well as online. They have just released the Cricket A100 and Kyocrea S1300.

Customers in Chicago, which is reportedly the largest Cricket market to date, will now have access to unlimited, feature-packed 3G wireless voice and broadband services. Also, there is now contiguous Cricket coverage stretching from over 60 miles south of Chicago in Kankakee to as far north as central Wisconsin.

Cricket has these special offers:

$30 Online Special plan - includes unlimited anytime minutes, unlimited nights & weekends and caller ID.
$35 Online Special plan - unlimited anytime minutes, US long distance and Caller ID for only $35 a month.
$40 Plan with Unlimited local & long distance minutes + Unlimited text & picture messaging.
$45 Unlimited Plan with unlimited Local and U.S Long Distance Calls, Unlimited Text, Picture and Instant Messaging.
$50 Unlimited Everything Plan - Unlimited Local and U.S Long Distance Calls, Unlimited Mobile Web, Unlimited U.S. & Mexico Text, Picture and Instant Messaging, Unlimited Coverage in Cricket Markets, Voice Mail, Caller ID, Call Waiting and 3-Way Calling. Offer ends.

The best deal however, appears to be this one through our Wireless and Mobile News coupon-link which is the first month free with free shipping when you purchase a phone and plan online through this coupon-link.

In addition Cricket is also offering Cricket Broadband service with no contracts or credit checks that start as low as $1.33 a day.

Cricket said that the company is bringing over 2,150 jobs to the area, including approximately 1,800 new positions created through the dealer network.

The Cricket footprint, which reportedly covers approximately 16,255 square miles and nearly 10.4 million covered POPs in the Greater Chicago area, brings Cricket’s total US nationwide covered POPs to approximately 77.5 million.