Cricket

Leap Wireless Taking Cricket Nationwide With Best Buy, Other Retailers

Ina Fried in Mobile on September 21, 2011 at 10:07 pm PT

Cricket phones, including those with the company’s Muve Music subscription service, will hit Best Buy shelves this week, with additional national retailers to follow.

Seven Questions for Asheem Chandna of Greylock Partners

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on August 1, 2011 at 4:19 pm PT

Asheem Chandna is a director in the Greylock-backed Palo Alto Networks, the fast-growing network security start-up that just hired away the CEO of Verisign.

AT&T Targets $50 Unlimited Plan at Ultra-Competitive Prepaid Cell Market

Ina Fried in News on June 22, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

While unlimited plans are going away on many traditional carriers, price competition in the prepaid market means such plans are enjoying a renaissance. AT&T is looking to get back in the game with a new $50 a month plan, though it is limited to feature phones, unlike some rivals which extend their cut-rate plans to smartphones.

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Cricket Wireless Investigating Weekend Network Outage

Ina Fried in Mobile on June 20, 2011 at 1:15 pm PT

Cricket Wireless apologized Monday for a weekend outage that left many cell phone and broadband users unable to connect to the carrier’s network. “Over the weekend many of our cell phone and broadband users have reported issues connecting to 3G Mobile and broadband data, Cricket said on its Facebook page. “Our teams are actively investigating the sudden cause of outages and we will provide further updates on the issue when more details become available.”

Aspiring Wholesale Network Provider Lightsquared Signs Deal With Best Buy

Ina Fried in Mobile on March 23, 2011 at 8:07 am PT

Lightsquared, a start-up that aims to build its own vast 4G network to resell to other operators, said on Wednesday that it had signed a deal with Best Buy for the retailer to offer its LTE service to customers.

Cricket Wireless’s All-You-Can-Eat Music Plan Stumbles on Way to the Buffet

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 6, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

The prepaid cellular service company says that it is taking a little longer to launch its Muve music server as it works to iron out some software bugs. Cricket still hopes to launch in Las Vegas later this month and in nine additional markets in February with a goal of expanding to all its cities by the spring.

Little-Known Cricket Wireless Tries a New Take on Subscription Music

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 19, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Bundling a music subscription into other goods and services has been tried a lot, mostly without success. However, Cricket Wireless is hoping to succeed where many others have failed. It’s launching a service next month that includes music downloads in the cost of prepaid cellphone service. For $55 a month, customers get unlimited text, talk and Web, plus all the music they can cram onto the phone.

Yahoo Snags Citizen Sports

John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 17, 2010 at 10:39 am PT

BoomTown was right. Yahoo is indeed buying online sports site Citizen Sports, a developer of sports-related apps and games for Apple’s iPhone and for social networking sites like Facebook. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but as BoomTown noted on Monday, estimates put Citizen’s selling price at about $40 to $50 million.

YouTube’s Modest Proposal: Sports Online (Almost) Instantly

Matthew Futterman, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 12, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Friday brings the opening of cricket’s wildly popular Indian Premier League and with it, hopefully for sports fans, a window into the future of international sports broadcasting. (NBC Sports executives, please keep reading). IPL, which has quickly become one of the most popular forms of one of the world’s most popular sports, has new wrinkle this year.

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