AT&T-owned Cricket Wireless is enabling 5G support on some of its plans, the company announced. But strangely, while appealing to most customers of prepaid plans like Cricket is a lower price, the only 5G-compatible device to date is the $ 1,199 Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus. And gaining access to 5G on Cricket requires signing up for one of their Unlimited plans, which start at $ 60 per month.
Cricket will likely use AT & T’s low-band 5G network (the announcement did not specify much in terms of technical details), which uses low-band 850MHz spectrum technology that has wider range but slower speeds than its mmWave 5G, which AT&T calls its 5G Plus network. The latter is currently limited to developers and selected companies. T-Mobile is also offering its low-band 5G, which it launched in December, to its Metro prepaid customers.
Cricket also announced that it is adding 5G support to its Simply Data plans, which do not offer phone and text services, starting at 20GB of data for $ 35 a month. And it’s a new Simply Data rate plan added, with 100GB for $ 90 per month.
