Around mid-last year, we published a couple of pieces about the best phone plans for families and single lines. Cricket was close to the top of both lists, and today it’s probably the best unlimited plan you can get.
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Cool, so why are we talking about it again if nothing really changed? Because I recently switched to Cricket Unlimited and man let me tell you: I wish I would’ve done this ages ago. Ages.
Here’s the scenario. Back in December, I was away from home for about two weeks visiting family in Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. Lots of driving, lots of hotel time. The hotel Wi-Fi was crappy, so I was quickly approaching my 8 GB data limit on Cricket.
Then it hit me: I would also be traveling to Vegas for CES in early January, where I would undoubtedly need a lot more data. At that point I had two choices: add more data as needed, one gigabyte (at $10 a pop) or change my plan.
But here’s the thing: I have four lines on my Cricket plan and was grandfathered into an old pricing scheme. Even one change would’ve killed this pricing and raise my bill by $30 in addition to the increase in the plan itself.
Then I remembered Cricket’s killer pricing for its unlimited plan: just $100 for four lines. That was less than I was paying at the time, but I had concerns because that particular plan caps the speed at 3 Mbps (opposed to Cricket’s usual 8 Mbps cap). Can you really survive with just 3 Mbps?
I had little choice, so I took the plunge and hoped for the best. I wish I would’ve done it a long time ago.
Is 3 Mbps Really Enough? (Spoiler: Yes)
That’s the question, right? Can you survive with such “slow” speeds? That’s the biggest thing I wanted to know, and it was especially daunting knowing that if I were to try to revert to my old plan later, I’d be paying more money for the same thing (who the hell wants that?).
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Source : Six Months Later: Cricket’s Unlimited Plan Is Still the Best Bang for Your Buck
