Do you all recommend Cricket in an area with great AT&T coverage?

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Do you all recommend Cricket in an area with great AT&T coverage?

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My AT&T iPAD prepaid plan has been rock solid and as advertised. I don't abuse it and download TBs of data and it's been treating me well. I pray it stays that way because T-mobile is completely screwing me over.

I have 2 separate T-mobile SIMs - one through AirWireless and another postpaid T-mobile and both have been aggressively throttling. This is a complete 180 from what they used to do for years ago before they acquired Sprint where AT&T was my backup and T-mobile was my primary.

I am starting to look into Cricket to increase my AT&T exposure because of this.

Now I have NEVER used Cricket before but since the AT&T iPAD prepaid plan is long gone, I'm wondering how you all recommend Cricket in an area with great AT&T coverage?

If I wanted to use Cricket for data (I don't mind buying phone plans at all either):

1. What is a good plan to use? I have ATT compatible phones, modems - any and most ways to extract LTE out of towers, so device selection isn't an issue for me

2. Are there some Cricket specific shenanigans I should know about? I think they default to deprioritized traffic and that's fine as the only living beings miles around are the animals in the corral.
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Never used cricket. Have set up three AT&T post pay tablet plans with no issues yet.
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Appreciate the link.

My concern with Cricket Wireless is that they can't seem to ever make up their minds about whether they want to support hotspot users or not.

I want something boring and dependable like the AT&T iPAD prepaid plan.

Which is what attracts me to Cricket Wireless phone plans with LTE. Those have been fairly consistent over the years so I am wondering if anyone here has experience using them first hand.
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Why not just get ATT Prepaid Unlimited Plus for $50?
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mtnchar wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 12:27 pm Why not just get ATT Prepaid Unlimited Plus for $50?
mtnchar, Thank You,

I ordered this yesterday and it's supposed to arrive today.

1. Have/Do you use this personally?

2. Is the first 22GB is "postpaid priority", and then the traffic is deprioritized or it's all "prepaid priority"?
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mtnchar wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 12:27 pm Why not just get ATT Prepaid Unlimited Plus for $50?
So far not working for me: https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2937
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