Cricket Wireless, owned by AT&T, enables 5 G to support some of its plans , the company announced. But oddly, even though the appeal to most customers of prepaid plans like Cricket is cheaper, the company's only 5 G compatible device so far is the $1,199 Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus. And accessing 5 G on Cricket requires subscribing to one of its Unlimited Plans, starting at $60 per month.
Cricket is likely to use the low-band 5 G network of AT&T (the announcement did not specify much in the way of technical details), which uses low-band 850MHz spectrum technology with a wider range but slower speed than its mmWave 5 G, which AT&T calls its 5 G Plus network.
The latter is currently limited to developers and selected companies. T-Mobile also offers its low-band 5 G, launched in December, to its Metro prepaid customers.
Cricket also announced the addition of 5 G support to its Simply Data plans, which do not offer phone and text services starting at 20 GB of data for $35 per month. And a new Simply Data rate plan has been added, with $100 GB for $90 per month.
