{"id":269735,"date":"2026-06-10T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/cricket-wireless-is-offering-select-iphones-and-android-phones-for-free-how-to-get-yours\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:20:27","slug":"cricket-wireless-is-offering-select-iphones-and-android-phones-for-free-how-to-get-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/cricket-wireless-is-offering-select-iphones-and-android-phones-for-free-how-to-get-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket Wireless is offering select iPhones and Android phones for free \u2014 how to get yours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/phones\/cricket-wireless-is-offering-select-iphones-and-android-phones-for-free-how-to-get-yours\">Cricket Wireless is offering select iPhones and Android phones for free \u2014 how to get yours<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/phones\/cricket-wireless-is-offering-select-iphones-and-android-phones-for-free-how-to-get-yours\">https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/phones\/cricket-wireless-is-offering-select-iphones-and-android-phones-for-free-how-to-get-yours<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-10 18:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.tomsguide.com\">www.tomsguide.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-158a116b-21d5-4b37-8908-ee9a8ccfcb40\">Purchasing a new smartphone can quickly turn into a costly endeavor, especially if you shop for models featured in our best phones guide. Fortunately, there are plenty of cell phone deals which can help keep costs at bay.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite deals this week comes from Cricket Wireless. If you&#8217;re not familiar with Cricket, the MVNO uses AT&#038;T&#8217;s towers for coverage. It essentially gives you access to AT&#038;T&#8217;s network without having to pay high prices for your monthly plan. As with any MVNO, your data speed with Cricket can slow down if AT&#038;T&#8217;s network gets congested, but Cricket has long since done away with speed caps on its plans, which makes it a far more attractive option than it was a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Cricket is slashing the price of select phones from Apple, Samsung, and Motorola. In some cases, you can get your new phone for free. Below I&#8217;ve rounded up my top deals now.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-body__section\" id=\"section-my-top-deals\"><span>My Top Deals<\/span><\/h3>\n<p id=\"elk-8beed025-ee64-4af9-8cae-7f4d917518d8\">Follow Tom&#8217;s Guide on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our up-to-date news, analysis, and reviews in your feeds. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/phones\/cricket-wireless-is-offering-select-iphones-and-android-phones-for-free-how-to-get-yours\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket Wireless is offering select iPhones and Android phones for free \u2014 how to get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/Se8u4HcVH6MfqtsqeFZ4C3-2560-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,116,86],"class_list":["post-269735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-motorola","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269737,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269735\/revisions\/269737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}