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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Wireless telecommunications |
Founded | March 17, 1999Chicago, Illinois, United States | in
Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 5,000 retail stores[1] (2019) |
Area served | United States |
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Products | |
Services | Mobile communications |
Number of employees | 221 |
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Website | www |
Cricket Wireless is an American prepaid mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), wholly-owned by AT&T. It provides wireless services to ten million subscribers in the United States.[1] Cricket Wireless was founded in March 1999 by Leap Wireless International. AT&T acquired Leap Wireless International in March 2014, and later merged Cricket Wireless operations with Aio Wireless.[3] Cricket Wireless competes primarily against T-Mobile's Metro by T-Mobile, EchoStar's Boost Mobile and Verizon's Visible in the prepaid wireless segment.
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