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Cricket Wireless: 64GB Apple iPhone SE or Moto G Stylus 5G Free (existing customers with 3G/unsupported phones)

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I know this deal on the free iPhone SE for new customers has been posted, but I don't think many people know about the free upgrade for existing customers with older 3G incompatible phones.

Cricket/AT&T networks are turning off 3G service in February 2022, making many phones incompatible. If you are receiving texts from Cricket saying your phone is incompatible, you are eligible for a free iPhone SE (or Moto G Stylus 5G) upgrade. This deal will work for all lines on your account that are receiving the Cricket message about incompatible phones.

When you upgrade a line through the website you will see the iPhone price of $249.99. Click to proceed to checkout, and before placing the order you will see "3G $249.99 Targeted Offer-Mfg/Dist Coupon - $249.99", making the phone free.

I was told by the Cricket store owner that this deal should be good until Jan 6th.

https://www.cricketwireless.com/c...black.html
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I know this deal on the free iPhone SE for new customers has been posted, but I don't think many people know about the free upgrade for existing customers with older 3G incompatible phones.

Cricket/AT&T networks are turning off 3G service in February 2022, making many phones incompatible. If you are receiving texts from Cricket saying your phone is incompatible, you are eligible for a free iPhone SE (or Moto G Stylus 5G) upgrade. This deal will work for all lines on your account that are receiving the Cricket message about incompatible phones.

When you upgrade a line through the website you will see the iPhone price of $249.99. Click to proceed to checkout, and before placing the order you will see "3G $249.99 Targeted Offer-Mfg/Dist Coupon - $249.99", making the phone free.

I was told by the Cricket store owner that this deal should be good until Jan 6th.

https://www.cricketwireless.com/c...black.html

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Jan 4, 2022
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bargaindeal
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Quote from HY-SD :
No it does not. It's simply that "VoLTE Carrier check" was disabled so your "enabled" is really fake. Poco X3 doesn't even have all the AT&T LTE bands to begin.

Any phone that's not in this list is consider "not whitelisted".

https://www.att.com/idpassets/ima...etwork.pdf [att.com]
thanks for the pdf. I have a Note 8 (N950U) which is on the ATT compatibility list but under cricket's imei compatibility website, it is not compatible and I received the text that my phone wont work.

So will my samsung note 8 still work after the 3G phase out? So confused. I don't want to buy a phone yet.
Last edited by bargaindeal January 3, 2022 at 05:48 PM.
Jan 4, 2022
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skippo
Jan 4, 2022
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I got an iPhone se. Just need to pay tax $30ish. Go to the store and ask them to look up your account. They can see which line has the free phone offer.
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HY-SD
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Quote from bargaindeal :
thanks for the pdf. I have a Note 8 (N950U) which is on the ATT compatibility list but under cricket's imei compatibility website, it is not compatible and I received the text that my phone wont work.

So will my samsung note 8 still work after the 3G phase out? So confused. I don't want to buy a phone yet.
that's totally odd...does cricket detect it as note 8 correctly?

note 8 should totally be ok, heck even note 4 is ok under that pdf...
Jan 4, 2022
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kennedy_ga
Jan 4, 2022
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This post has saved me so much money, thank you. I was driving my family to Cricket today to upgrade 3 out of our 4 phones because of the 5g upgrade and dreading on what I would have paid out plus cases, ect. Afterwards, I taken my family out for a little shopping and lunch. I literally saw this post right before walking into the store.
I had showed the store employee the process (quietly) on how I can get the deal by walking him through their website. You don't even have to change your 4 lines for $100 plan. He tried to put our plans to the $60 per line but I stopped him on that. Just pay tax, your good to go.
Last edited by kennedy_ga January 3, 2022 at 08:45 PM.
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kennedy_ga
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Quote from HY-SD :
that's totally odd...does cricket detect it as note 8 correctly?

note 8 should totally be ok, heck even note 4 is ok under that pdf...
I have a note 8 and 5 in the family plan. They were both denied. As was the Galaxy S6. Cricket considers them 3g phones for some reason.
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juan003
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iPhone 5 is LTE which is 4G. It was the the major LTE upgrade cycle that made Apple lots of money!

You need an iPhone 4 or 4s or older.

But I believe you would need to have the SIM swapped before the notification was sent out regarding the loss of 3G service. Otherwise the system would not have logged your 3G phone IMEI and tagged it as upgradable.

Edit: correction, iPhone 5 does not natively support VoLTE which means the voice calls are sent/received as data and not as an old school cellular voice call which they are phasing out. So technically an iPhone 5 will no longer be compatible going forward as even though you can get LTE data, you will not be able to make voice calls anymore!

So key in your IMEI into the website to confirm upgradability.
Last edited by juan003 January 3, 2022 at 10:41 PM.
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HY-SD
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Quote from juan003 :
iPhone 5 is LTE which is 4G. It was the the major LTE upgrade cycle that made Apple lots of money!

You need an iPhone 4 or 4s or older.

But I believe you would need to have the SIM swapped before the notification was sent out regarding the loss of 3G service. Otherwise the system would not have logged your 3G phone IMEI and tagged it as upgradable.

Edit: correction, iPhone 5 does not natively support VoLTE which means the voice calls are sent/received as data and not as an old school cellular voice call which they are phasing out. So technically an iPhone 5 will no longer be compatible going forward as even though you can get LTE data, you will not be able to make voice calls anymore!

So key in your IMEI into the website to confirm upgradability.
"iPhone 6 and newer" according to AT&T.

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Quote from AndrewF5410 :
This is my first deal post. Feedback appreciated.
Good job, guy
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Quote from skippo :
I got an iPhone se. Just need to pay tax $30ish. Go to the store and ask them to look up your account. They can see which line has the free phone offer.
Ordered online and wasn't charged any tax.
Jan 4, 2022
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Cor86
Jan 4, 2022
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Just got this after buying a cheap moto G play to replace my dads old moto e4. Glad I waited to activate. Phone was completely free and arrived in 2 days. Wish I didn't have to call to activate but still well worth it.
Jan 4, 2022
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milaohu
Jan 4, 2022
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My old phone is working fine for now.

If I order a new moto g stylus 5G, does it come with a new sim card?

Could I just use my old phone with the old sim card? I don't want to switch phone/sim card, afraid that would make my old phone NOT working.

Thanks!
Jan 4, 2022
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runeoe
Jan 4, 2022
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Quote from milaohu :
My old phone is working fine for now.

If I order a new moto g stylus 5G, does it come with a new sim card?

Could I just use my old phone with the old sim card? I don't want to switch phone/sim card, afraid that would make my old phone NOT working.

Thanks!
I just received my Stylus and there is a sim inside the sealed box.
Jan 4, 2022
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milaohu
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Quote from runeoe :
I just received my Stylus and there is a sim inside the sealed box.
Does your old phone with your old sim work before/after you receive the new phone and sim?
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civicsi98
Jan 4, 2022
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I have an old brand new never activated 3g Nokia phone and a $25 cricket card. If I activate it now, will I be eligible for a free iPhone se?
Last edited by civicsi98 January 4, 2022 at 02:24 PM.

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The iPhone SE 2 (this) is a very solid phone. Same CPU/GPU as the iPhone 11 but has less pixels to push. Decent camera. I like Touch ID on this more than the Face ID on newer iPhones. I only upgraded from it because of the Visible $400 iPhone 12 mini deals.

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