Cricket Communications, Inc., also d.b.a. Cricket Wireless, was founded in 1999, provides wireless services to over 7 million customers in the United States. The company is a subsidiary of Leap Wireless, utilizing its CDMA 1X, 1xEV-DO and LTE networks. Leap Wireless owns and operates the seventh largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States. The company recently launched the first Advanced Wireless Services network in Oklahoma City. The company also went nationwide with roaming agreements on March 23, 2010. In August 2010, Leap Wireless and Sprint Nextel announced a five year agreement that allows Cricket Wireless to offer nationwide 3G service to its customers using Sprint's 3G network. In May 2012, Cricket became the first wireless provider to begin carrying the Apple iPhone available off-contract.
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Famous quotes containing the word cricket:
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)