Cricket Enhances International Long Distance Offering To Mexico and Canada
San Diego, Calif. - In an effort to make international long distance calling even more affordable for its customers, Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider of unlimited wireless services, today announced that it is offering 550 international calling minutes to Canada and Mexico for just $25.
"Priced at less than five cents a minute, we believe that our new $25 calling plan to Mexico and Canada is the most affordable international long distance offering in the wireless space," said Linda Wokoun, Senior VP of Marketing. "Given the large number of our Cricket customers who frequently communicate with acquaintances in both Canada and Mexico, we continue to look at ways to make international calling even more cost-effective for them. We believe that this will be a successful product."
Customers interested in Cricket's enhanced international long distance offering to Mexico and Canada can use the service by prepaying for the $25 bucket of minutes. The dollar amount in the bucket will be automatically deducted each time a customer places an international long distance call to Canada or Mexico. Customers can also add additional funds to their bucket by dialing *PAY on their Cricket(R) phone as necessary.
About Cricket®
Cricket is a simple and affordable mobile phone service offering customers and local businesses flat-rate, unlimited service over a high-quality, all-digital wireless network. Designed for customers under-served by traditional communications companies, Cricket is the pioneer of unlimited anytime minutes with no long-term commitments or credit check required. Cricket offers customers access to a variety of the latest handsets and feature-rich mobile applications such as unlimited text messaging, unlimited picture messaging, popular games, ringtones and wallpapers. For more information on Cricket visit www.mycricket.com. Cricket is a brand of Leap Wireless International, Inc. [NASDAQ: LEAP], headquartered in San Diego, Calif. For more information on Leap, visit www.leapwireless.com.
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