Cricket Wireless Debuts New Prepaid Plans Starting at $35

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Cricket Wireless has revamped its prepaid plans to trim prices and offer more perks, including hotspot data and bundled extras like streaming services.

Cricket, owned by AT&T, competes with prepaid providers from other carriers like Verizon's Visible, T-Mobile's Mint Mobile and Dish's Boost Mobile. Cricket has trimmed its offerings down to four plans (from five) and dropped prices on all of them.

Cricket's cheapest plan, called Sensible 10GB, is still $30 per month if set up with autopay (or $35 normally) and offers 5G service with 10GB of monthly data (up ...