FREE Gas, FREE Phones and Service and FREE Music from Cricket
Austin, TX – July 31, 2006 – Cricket® wireless service will be available to the Greater Austin market on August 1, 2006, but before its service even begins, the company is celebrating its entry into the Central Texas area with a FREE Gas promotion.
The first 96 cars to arrive at three soon-to-be announced locations will fill up their gas tanks with up to 15 gallons of FREE gasoline from Cricket Wireless. Gas promotion dates are Saturday, July 29; Monday, July 31; and Wednesday, August 2.
Additionally, Cricket will celebrate its launch with a FREE Cricket Concert in Waterloo Park on Sunday, August 6, from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. (park opens at 3 p.m.). The concert will include Grammy-nominated, Austin-based rockers Fastball, Beto y los Fairlanes, Kevin McKinney from Soul Hat, Alteza, and The Steps. The first 1,000 concert attendees will receive a free, personal-sized Cricket fan. Food and drink vendors will be selling items on site. No alcohol will be sold or be allowed into Waterloo Park. No glass containers, coolers or pets, please.
Cricket is also blanketing Central Texas with its FREE Cricket T-shirts. If the Cricket Street Team spots anyone wearing a Cricket shirt, then that individual will be given a FREE Motorola® Razr phone and one year free Cricket’s Unlimited Access service.
Cricket’s featured cell phone plan offers unlimited anytime minutes, U.S. long distance service, text messaging, instant messaging and picture messaging for only $45 per month, excluding taxes and fees. It’s local calling area includes San Antonio, as well as Temple and Killeen.
For additional information on Cricket Wireless, visit www.mycrickettexas.com.
About Cricket®
Cricket is a simple, 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 minutes with no long-term commitments or credit checks required. Cricket offers customers access to a variety of the latest handsets and feature-rich mobile applications such as unlimited text, instant and picture messaging, popular games, ring tones and wallpapers. For more information on Cricket visit www.mycricket.com. Cricket is offered by Leap Wireless International, Inc., headquartered in San Diego, Calif. For more information on Leap, visit www.leapwireless.com.
