AT&T's plan to counter T-Mobile is Cricket Wireless unlimited

Cricket Wireless, prepaid carrier owned by AT & T announced that it is offering unlimited data, text, and voice plan $ 70 a month. This is an all-in price, including taxes and fees, and for people who sign up for automated invoice price drops to $ 65 per month.

There are the fine print, and as you might expect it is related to unlimited data (ever see the carrier "unlimited data offer," reveal your lies must beeping starts). And smothered cricket download speeds on LTE to 8Mbps, and he smothered the 4G's 4 Mpbs. This is not a slow, exactly, but AT Network & T is obviously capable of a whole lot anything other more.The to note is that cricket and prevent regular attempts to use the phone as a mobile hotspot - is supposed to find ways to slap you down if you try to use a workaround to a rope or use an amount improper data. This is a natural basis for any plan, "unlimited." Representative cricket tells us that cricket is not currently punishable heavy data users, but "in the future, Cricket may consider reasonable network management practices."

So those are the details, and if you are satisfied smothered data and select the phone Cricket, it seems like a good deal. But for people who have seen AT & T struggles to cope with the bustle of the goofy CEO John Legere T-Mobile, there's something deeper going on here. Cricket explicitly indicates that it is introducing cheaper than what you can get on a similar plan T-Mobile deal. In fact, notes a press statement, T-Mobile times almost as many mentions of cricket, and it's offering $ 100 reward to switchers.Cricket even take overlooked, irks approach to the challenge of the T-Mobile with the new plan, saying that the prices are "very cool." So, like Verizon, AT & T is trying to stay above the fray and instead of sending it to the Cricket brand to take on T-Mobile. Instead of trying to compete directly on price, and they are already using Cricket paid to do so instead. Which makes sense, at least from the standpoint of AT & T's: gets to be a competitive offering and indirect coating T-Mobile as a carrier, "budget" rather than the main carrier.

But what may make even more sense is: if pre-paid carriers using the same networks such as major airlines, stodgy and offer discounted heavily, why not switch to prepaid? There is still a stigma surrounding this strange cheaper alternatives (at least in the US), and that stigma is really starting to look silly.