[9] In December 2007, Cricket acquired Hargray Communications Group's wireless telecommunications business.

[10] In September 2008, Cricket and MetroPCS entered into a ten-year roaming agreement covering both companies' existing and future markets.

[11] In November 2008, they launched "Premium Extended Coverage", a roaming partnership with 14 wireless companies.

[14] The music service was deemed by Cricket as a major success and credited with helping drive up at least 100,000 new subscribers in the course of a few months.

Cricket Wireless noted on its old website that CDMA service would be terminated as early as September 2015.

"[26] The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff and Cricket was forced to either unlock the locked cell phones, provide 1 month of free service on the 1GB plan for former customers and waive the activation fee, or provide current customers with one extra gigabyte of data for four months.

[27] A similar lawsuit was filed by the Attorney General of Maryland in June 2020 for violating the state's consumer protection act.

[28] In October 2014, Cricket Wireless (and its parent company, AT&T) came under scrutiny for intercepting and modifying its customers' email traffic to downgrade and prevent encryption of the conversation and its metadata.

[29] An engineer at a digital security and privacy firm, Golden Frog, first noticed the issue in September 2013 via his Aio Wireless connection (later acquired by Cricket).

[30] Upon further investigation by the privacy firm in June 2014, Golden Frog determined that Cricket masked the STARTTLS command in email server responses, thereby "putting its customers at serious risk by inhibiting their ability to protect online communications.

"[29] The EFF also published a technical analysis condemning ISPs like Cricket for tampering with customer internet traffic.