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Cricket Launches Its First All-AWS Market

Mar 31, 2008, 11:50 AM by Eric M. Zeman

Today Cricket announced that Oklahoma City will be its first full AWS 1700 MHz market. Cricket has 98 cell sites up and running in the area, and is opening 5 direct stores in the Oklahoma City area, as well as 58 other locations. It will offer new AWS handsets and a tri-band wireless modem for data. Cricket's wireless rate plans range from $35 to $60 per month. This new market will be the first of many for Cricket as it begins to expand with the spectrum it purchased in 2006's AWS spectrum auction.

source: Cricket

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terryjohnson16

Mar 31, 2008, 1:32 PM

T-Mobile what is taking you so long?!

This is very discouraging. A regional CDMA carrier launching AWS services first, while a GSM national carrier can't even give launch details or their status about when they will have 3G up. We all know they say "Its coming" but WHEN!!!! 😡

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