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Apple iPhone 16e $50 + 2-Mo. Supreme Unlimited Plan $120 with port-in at Cricket Wireless $170
$170
$780
78% off
Cricket Wireless
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This Cricket deal pairs an iPhone 16e with two months of service, and the main appeal is the low upfront cost for a locked phone that can later be used for trade-in or a year of Cricket service. The phone is eSIM-only, so activation and port-in steps matter, but the setup can work on an existing Cricket line with the right port-in details. The biggest drawback is the one-year lock and the service cost, which makes the total less attractive than some alternatives. It is most compelling for Cricket users or niche cases like app testing.
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The 16e is eSIM-only, so activation is done through Cricket's eSIM transfer flow, not a physical SIM swap. One workable method is to port in a temporary number for the deal, then use Settings > Cellular > Add eSIM > Transfer from Nearby iPhone to move your real number onto the new phone.
The phone is locked to Cricket for a year, so it is not meant to be used freely on another carrier during that period. Since Red Pocket GSMA also runs on AT&T's network, compatibility is the key question, but the lock still controls whether it will work.
Yes, the line can be moved to Cricket's $30 plan after the $60 promo plan expires. The phone remains locked for a year, so the lower plan only helps reduce ongoing service cost after the required promo period.
It changed to $9.99 for the phone plus 3 months of service at $60, for $190 total instead of $170. Earlier pricing was $50 for the phone plus 2 months of service.
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to swap the line in on my already full family plan:
at this point everything worked fine. supposedly in 60 days the temp number account will cancel and the phone will just have the family plan accounts i looked in three mycricket app and it immediately showed the new phone on that line. so in a year of use on cricket plan this should be unlockable
Edit to add: did the same to upgede a second device. Both older phones were the same (iPhone se 2). had both about the same amount of time. Both had physical sim. On the 2nd phone, step 7 ended with a "contact customer service to activate esim" message. i used another device to open a CS live chat, told them i want to move Sim to new iPhone using Add esim and got a contact CS prompt. he asked for new phone IMEI, i gave him the IMEI2 number from settings, and after a few "one time code" security checks he put it through. 5 min later new phone got network update and number moved over. all good after that. he wasn't sure what was different this time either. but in the end i got two cricket phone upgrades through the deal
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