Cricket Wireless vs AT&T coverage comparison nearly coast to coast!

Cricket wireless can save you 50% compared to AT&T or any other of the major wireless operators. The saving isn't worth it though unless the service is just as good as the big boys so I compared the coverage of Cricket Wireless vs AT&T on my cross county drive.
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Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor, accountant, or any other financial professional. The views expressed in this video are my opinions based on available information and my own personal experience. Investing involves risk and possible loss of capital and consulting a financial professional is always advised if you have questions.

[@cliffyager983]

Excellent insight!

[@diegosmunchies9744]

Thanks.... This video help me get clarity on switching to cricket.. keep up the good work

[@EverydayMoney0]

You're welcome, thanks for watching!

[@thefrugalcyborgmriii3531]

I always wondered how close AT&T and cricket wireless were when it comes to coverage! Because I have cricket wireless and I love the plants because it is a lot cheaper than AT&T or Verizon! And thank you for doing the coverage test on your road trip! Where I am from AT&T put up more towers in the middle of nowhere where they didn’t have coverage and now they have more coverage here in New Mexico! Since I am with cricket wireless, I get more coverage now in more places and it is pretty close to Verizon, in some areas it beats Verizon where I am from!

[@EverydayMoney0]

I suspected that it was the same but you are welcome for the test! New Mexico was absolutely beautiful!

[@christhecricket5669]

my family and i love the cricket. the 5 unlimited lines for 125 a month is hard to beat plus 5g.

[@vjaguirre6044]

They have the same coverage. Cricket runs on AT&T

[@Dustinnicholas1987]

Hey, I live in New Mexico and have T-Mobile and it's horrible in rural areas which New Mexico has a lot of lol. And I drive everywhere for work. How is cricket ??

[@thefrugalcyborgmriii3531]

@@Dustinnicholas1987 it is awesome in New Mexico! Right now I am with straight talk wireless because they are owned by Verizon, but the only reason I left cricket wireless was of the phone price, but they have awesome coverage! They are owned by AT&T. I might jump back on AT&T after my phone unlocks in about two months! The best plan they have is the cricket more plan which is $55 after auto pay! And you get unlimited data with premium data speeds with no caps! 15 gigs of hotspot, and free max with ads! That’s why I might go back with them! But they are very similar to Verizon coverage. It’s barely noticeable nowadays! my parents live out in the boonies, and they work really well out there! I hope this information is useful!

[@SaadonAksah]

Thanks for sharing your experience! 👍

[@christhecricket5669]

Love the cricket wireless. I have the 5 lines for 160 a month plus hotspot and 5g. In the cricket wireless. Glad I found them.

[@EverydayMoney0]

Lots of money saved!

[@christhecricket5669]

@@EverydayMoney0 Yes Sir

[@EverydayMoney0]

Someone called me sir with the "you're making a scene" part! Small victories.

[@toyota420xp]

I have 5 lines 100.00

[@christhecricket5669]

@@toyota420xp that's a good deal. who you have as cell carrier

[@samuelpetrucci9555]

Thanks for the info.

[@EastTnEntrepreneur]

I am a store manager for Cricket Wireless love that your doing the refer a friend on your video. If you get the chance to do a comparison to Verizon service it would be great due to we have service many areas that Verizon doesn't in East TN. Look forward to watching more of your videos.

[@EverydayMoney0]

Thank you! I'd do what I can and am hoping to be in the East TN area soon!

[@sweetdroid77]

me too have good serives

[@unclebrew9536]

Please does any of your plans have 1080p streaming?

[@charlesayers5387]

Hello friends I have US Cellular phone At last built it charged me a $119. 91 I'm gonna cancel tomorrow I'd like to buy me a phone to cricket I'd like to spend $600 live in Carroll County They have Cricket in mount airy North Carolina If you on KZbin let me know What is a good phone to buy

[@joelpaul5867]

I'm a Store Manager at Cricket too. What Authorized Retailer are you with?

[@user-jm8el1rm6k]

"Escape goat vlogger".

[@NewsStream3600]

Theres a update now in Oklahoma some people dont have calls working

[@nastinati647]

As a fellow Cincinnatian. You just sold me on Cricket. Thanks 👍

[@ESSHD]

What about T-Mobile and Metro ???

[@Roadwarier9871]

Well put my friend I also have saved a chunk of money switching between AT&T to Cricket years ago...

[@alpharenz1329]

Still AT&T wireless. AT&T owns Cricket Wireless.

[@jons_vlog3]

I know this video is 2 years old have you thought about doing an update? Are you still using cricket wireless? I am thinking about going to Cricket after 6/8 years of being with T-Mobile

[@deraw94]

Cricket wireless will be a good choice, especially for coverage all around and in rural areas

[@antant7777]

Thank you now this is a real network review coast to coast

[@wilecatrexy]

I have cricket and some places I dont have service, but at&t phones have coverage in the same places.

[@nbhbadboy2026]

I just paid off my phones from AT&T few days ago went it cricket paying 130 for 4 lines compare to damn 290 for 4 lines

[@EverydayMoney0]

Isn't that crazy?

[@nbhbadboy2026]

@@EverydayMoney0 I went to Grand Canyon cricket had 0 signal an around the mountains but other then that it’s good

[@EverydayMoney0]

Same here. No service at Grand Canyon but neither did the legit AT&T people either.

[@Noahvis4]

@@EverydayMoney0 Only Verizon really works over there since they have 6 towers with band 13 coverage. AT&T added 2 towers in South Rim now

[@christhecricket5669]

i got the family on the 5 lines for 125 a month and we love it.

[@daviddamron7077]

Had Cricket Wireless over a month ago n wondering when I can go back n get specials they have

[@ashishpatel350]

I think it's 6 months

[@mrrice117]

Cricket actually has better coverage than prepaid att

[@alpharenz1329]

AT&T owns Cricket Wireless.

[@brandonyoung7760]

I just signed up for cricket yesterday and they are shipping the sim cards today. Is it too last to use your referral code?

[@gabeulrickson2496]

Straight talk keeps messing everything I have up, right now my phone (which I used to have them 6 months ago no problems) randomly disconnects from networks, data active but doesn't work, the hotspot I'm paying for quit working after I renewed my plan last month (top tier 15gb hotspot plan) and they have no idea why

[@EverydayMoney0]

I've had nothing but good results with Cricket. Still $70/month for two lines and I can't tell the difference between them and real deal AT&T.

[@gabeulrickson2496]

@@EverydayMoney0 my phone bill is due at midnight tomorrow night I'm switching to Cricket

[@mr.m.7357]

I have Cricket and I’ve been able to use my phone across TX, Vegas, NY, L.A. Disney World, The Hoover Dam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Mexico City, Cancun, Los Cabos and when I say TX I mean from south to north with everything in between and we know how over exaggeratedly big TX is. I look at it like this; I’m never gonna own the service outright like I would car or a house, so why bust my butt to make a ridiculously high monthly payment?

[@lsinghca]

I'm a truck driver, I drive across the nation, Verizon is the far most consistent. You barely lose signal

[@KnoxTechHQ]

They are also super congested in some areas to the point where they are unusable.

[@christhecricket5669]

I have buddy that has Total wireless that runs off verizon. And he says he is saving a ton of money on total wireless by verizon. But I'm hooked on cricket wireless.

[@EverydayMoney0]

That's good on both parts. I didn't know total wireless ran on Verizon.

[@Noahvis4]

@@EverydayMoney0 Total wireless is on same qci as postpaid

[@cnkilts]

Total wireless have great cheap family lines, but if there are a lot of Verizon users in your area, it’s very slow. My family is thinking of switching to Cricket because of the slow speeds.

[@Noahvis4]

@@cnkilts Makes sense since Verizon is congested in several areas, Cricket is a great choice

[@christhecricket5669]

@@cnkilts I had my family on the 5 lines for 125 a month on cricket. Upgraded the 5 for 160 plus 5g and the free HBO max. Happy camper here. Either plan is great for the money 💰

[@mikehawk7307]

I have had ATT back in the early 2010'S. When I had it, it was the best for the money. Then 5g kicked in I have noticed the lack of signal service for ATT customers. Then I went to Verizon. Now I am back on Cricket. The signal strength is terrible. I get one bar everywhere I go. When before I was getting at least 3 bars. Thinking about going to Visible soon.

[@EverydayMoney0]

Do what works for you! Thanks for watching!

[@Zeeangelofdeath]

You should disable 5g for now and just use LTE because not everywhere supports 5g. When I go to Dallas or Austin it’s great but when I go back to my small town it’s not that good so I just swing back to LTE and only use 5g in the bigger city. If you search any tech KZbinr they all say 5g is still in its infancy also in my experience it drains your battery faster than lte.

[@KFWinterblue]

You shouldn’t just go by signal bars alone. My wife had Verizon and in our home she would have full bars everywhere but only get 3 mbps in the area. Me being on cricket (AT&T) I would and still only get one bar but 100mbps. So yeah, take that as you will.

[@mikehawk7307]

If you go to Visible then I would go with the $45 a month plan. The $25 is ok but the data speeds are horrific. I can have full bars on the cheaper plan and it claimed I was offline.

[@mikehawk7307]

@@Zeeangelofdeath I would switch to just 4g but Verizon does not allow me to do that. I have tried looking for it.

[@jamieedmonds5122]

I just got back with cricket yesterday. I love it. What about the 5G tho?

[@EverydayMoney0]

Unfortunately I have no experience with their 5g

[@Test7017]

5g is a weapon that's why Trump did an emergency install bill. Turn it off

[@BigBlueDog8]

I have been a customer for over 7 yrs. Before that I had cricket when it first came out. What I can say is the customer service has been awful and the service has declined majorly since the start of 5G. I personally think we are being deprioritized in an attempt to push us to upgrade to 5G. Before that I kept it because it was cheap. Now I just want to smash my phone and go without. Cricket is terrible.

[@rowdy1835]

I noticed the same thing when 5g started to come around, i had actually forgotten about it because i upgraded to 5g about 10 months ago an service had been fine even since.

[@BryanRacks]

Get 5g than

[@TW---]

AT&T downgrades cricket customers to the old 3G towers. Since they are shutting them down recently to get ready for widespread 5G rollout you are experiencing problems. As commented above you can get a 5G capable phone and should see improvement. Target even carries Cricket phones for $30-40. Luckily Cricket has real stores you can go into for customer service unlike other MVNOs. They're not great but better than foreign country phone only customer service.

[@TW---]

Also, being deprioritized is just the way it works with MVNO. They aren't doing it to get you to switch. But that's why you pay less half of what AT&T customers pay.

[@eatanelkberger]

I heard that ATT had roaming in areas their towers didn't reach, and that Cricket did not have roaming. Is that not true?

[@christurner1431]

That is true. Cricket does not get roaming onto partner networks like AT&T customers get.

[@ocwatts-zq8lc]

​@@christurner1431they do now . Cricket roams on US cellular and comnet. I was in the grand canyon recently and my cricket phone was roaming on comnet just like my mom's at&t post paid phone .

[@misterdoctorphd8711]

Straight talk is good

[@alpharenz1329]

Cricket Wireless is the same as AT&T starter. Price point with fiber 5 lines with AT&T is $112.50 plus taxes and fees. Less than $30 in taxes and fees, so less than $140 a month. Cricket is $125 no frills or $160 for 5 lines. AT&T you can get up to $800 sometimes $1,000 sometimes to get a new phone with trade in plus $200 per line you get a device and port in. So if you getting 5 Samsung S23 finance it for 3 years it would be $111.11 more on Cricket. So it all depends if you want to get phones heavily duscounted or pay full prices on smartphones.

[@leevonallenjr9762]

H20 wireless works good also

[@EverydayMoney0]

Never heard of them but if it works, it works! They all run on the same towers as the big boys.

[@brendanward5405]

What about net10

[@EverydayMoney0]

Not sure because I've never used them but they run on one of the big network's towers so you have to find out whose. For example I had Straight Talk once and the phone I had ran on Verizon's network so I had Verizon coverage for less! Thanks for watching!

[@stephenlozada7158]

33875 Verizon / Att was the best but Verizon went to crap about 3 years ago looking into Att or cricket now

[@cagefreecleric1834]

well i have been with cricket for over two year , striming sucks it takes around 5 minutes to down load a video .

[@EverydayMoney0]

Sorry to hear that. If it doesn't work for you, switch up to something that does!

[@ohhyayaaa]

Cricket uses at&t towers.

[@Dave-qb1iq]

ATT owns cricket

[@ohhyayaaa]

@@Dave-qb1iq I know

[@ronaldbernes8352]

Wow

[@JaredNelsonakajarhead]

Is it true cricket does have a few select towers in the us? I know they run off of att but i remember seeing something they do have few of their own towers.

[@TW---]

Yes, before Att bought them. Called Aio. When you run a speed test it comes up.

[@alpharenz1329]

​@@TW--- AT&T owned AIO wireless then bought Cricket Wireless and merged AIO with Cricket.

[@chrisc7195]

Used your referral code.

[@EverydayMoney0]

Thank you pal! We both save even more!

[@rowdy1835]

Your not streaming hd on cricket

[@EverydayMoney0]

I certainly am.

[@rowdy1835]

@@EverydayMoney0 how ya do that, im on there most expensive plan with 5g and cant 99 percent of them time, im about to switch to at&t just because of this.

[@teresa1231]

@@rowdy1835 Use a vpn to bypass this

[@gradymcclintock3766]

Cricket and att are same coverage

[@EverydayMoney0]

Exactly

[@Noahvis4]

@@EverydayMoney0 Except for some roaming you don't get, but it's nearly same

[@gradymcclintock3766]

I think it's on par with the prepaid

[@Noahvis4]

@@gradymcclintock3766 Agreed

[@gradymcclintock3766]

There maybe a slight difference in roaming but the overall coverage is the same

[@mikehawk7307]

I am saving a lot more than 50% on my bill. I use Visible Wireless. I pay on $25 a month.

[@tonylopez7404]

I am saying 100% with boost mobile since they let you earn boostcoins by watching ads and spinning a wheel. I have a 25 plan that has 30gb after that it does slow down but if you don't need unlimited fast data can't beat boost mobile. I have racked up 50 bucks in a month so I have enough for this month and next

[@MrJgonzalez09]

Verizon sucks in south tx

[@EverydayMoney0]

Not great vs AT&T in east TN as well

[@nbhbadboy2026]

Not really manny I had Verizon before it works good in the valley depends on the little areas your at

[@Sevendustfan2009]

I'm with T-Mobile and they are awful

[@EverydayMoney0]

T-Mobile and Sprint are the pits.

[@majie108]

I have metro by T-Mobile and it’s horrible 😭I’m switching to cricket

[@Sevendustfan2009]

@@majie108 Me too. My girlfriend and my mother also. 3 lines for $110 a month

[@zbrittanybrowning177]

Just switched back to cricket from t mobile

[@christhecricket5669]

@@majie108 i got my family on the 5 lines for 125 a month and we love it.

[@sheilastutz6436]

Hateful

[@themainguy5050]

Cricket wireless is not the same as AT&t they have a lot of hidden things they don't tell you about like you're also not supposed to bring your own phone that is capable of IE 5g cricket doesn't like it and all will mess up your account cricket doesn't have good coverage out in the country they don't really care whether you're getting good service or not they just want their money. The only thing good about cricket is they're cheap for four lines a month and also you don't have to pay a fee to switch your phones around like on MetroPCS.

[@AndrewAddisonUniqueDrewski980]

You are super delusional and a liar. Cricket is the exact same as AT&T. The only difference is, is Cricket is fully prepaid with Taxes and Fees Included while AT&T adds Taxes & Fees. Cricket 5G is also the same as AT&T. You obviously don't even know what you are talking about. AT&T fully bought out Cricket's owner Leap Wireless, rebranding it as AT&T's new Cricket Wireless since year of 2014. Oh you obviously don't realize it all depends on the phone the have with Cricket Wireless the same going for AT&T side of things. I have actually had excellent call quality/coverage throughout the country with AT&T "Cricket Wireless" without any issues whatsoever. Stop trying to speak for everyone else.

[@Dontbotherme11111]

@@AndrewAddisonUniqueDrewski980 your delusional this man speaks the truth

[@bionicwoman9884]

lies