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Cricket launches first prepaid plan for iPhone
Cricket Communications will be the first U.S. carrier to offer the iPhone to customers under a prepaid plan.
Thu, May 31 2012 at 11:07 AM
CARRIERS: Apple, which now has around 30 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, initially sold the iPhone only through AT&T. It has since reached deals with Verizon, Sprint and other carriers. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
Cricket Communications said May 31 it would be the first U.S. carrier to offer the iPhone to customers under a prepaid plan, a move expanding the footprint of the wildly popular Apple device.
Cricket, a unit of Leap Wireless International, will offer the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 with its $55 per month, all-inclusive plan.
Apple, which now has around 30 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, initially sold the iPhone only through AT&T. It has since reached deals with Verizon, Sprint and other carriers.
But Cricket said it was a "major milestone" to offer the "value-packed, no-contract plan" for iPhone users.
The iPhone 4S will start at $500 and the iPhone 4 at $400.
Copyright 2012 AFP American Edition
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Way too cool! I've been wanting to get an iPhone 4, just not liking the fact that I have to be tethered to a two year contract. I'll be able get this phone, and hopefully Cricket will have the new iPhone, and I can that get one with out having to cancel a new service contract.