Cricket is all set to introduce its Muve Music service with new phones nationwide through Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores. Along with this, Cricket intends introducing other monthly voice products via Best Buy. This holiday season will see Cricket’s expansion plans come to fore with the recently launched ZTE Score receiving the Muve Music touch, soon after the Samsung Vitality smartphone was integrated with the service. Plus, this will be made available on the ZTE Chorus that is touted to release later this year.
Best Buy customers using Muve Music Smartphone rate plans will enjoy unlimited text, pictures, ringtones, videos, song downloads, and ringback tones, as well as nationwide calling and also 3G mobile data, data back-up, and 411 assistance. All of this can be accessible at a price of $55 per month while the Muve Music feature phone rate plan will be for $45 via Best Buy.
“Our partnership with Best Buy, one of the country’s most trusted names in national retail, will allow Cricket to significantly expand our distribution footprint nationwide with products like our popular music service Muve Music which is among the fastest growing music services in the country,” comments Doug Hutcheson, president and chief executive officer of Leap. “These products feature nationwide coverage and no contracts. Several of them are being offered by Cricket for the first time and are customized and unique to Best Buy.”
In addition to this, Cricket will introduce two other standard feature phones at Best Buy namely the Huawei Pillar, a QWERTY mobile phone and the Samsung Chrono. These will be offered with the Cricket PayGo service plans at $25 and $35 per month. This service would enable users to enjoy unlimited picture, text and video messaging and unlimited mobile web.
The new handsets can be obtained nationwide at Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile specialty stores from tomorrow. The three mobile phones, Samsung Vitality, ZTE Score, and ZTE Chorus are priced at $199.99, $129.99 and $99.99 respectively. The Huawei Pillar and Samsung Chrono will retail at $69.99 and $39.99.