I have a Crickett Wireless Phone. How many do too? Were you aware that the cell towers went down across the nation?

I've had Cricket for more than a year now.

The outage wasn't quite nationwide, my younger son and I had no service but my older son still had service in Norfolk.

Because Cricket is owned by AT&T and uses the AT&T network it's the best pay as you go option if coverage is important to you. Most other pay as you go carriers use either the Sprint or the T-Mobile networks which don't have as complete coverage as AT&T or Verizon.

Also an advantage of Cricket is you can bring a locked AT&T phone and it will work.

In any case, the outage was annoying but everything was back to normal this morning.

Smh this is really sad.

I have heard mixed reviews, though I don't have one. I heard they are fine f you are in a urban and don't travel long distances much. But the coverage gets worse in rural areas and if you go on road trips and such... but as I said don't actually have, this just what I been told.