Aio Wireless
Company type | Subsidiary |
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Founded | 2013 |
Defunct | 2014 |
Fate | Merged with Cricket Communications now Cricket Wireless LLC |
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Key people | Jennifer Van Buskirk (President) Cheryl Choy (Head of Network) |
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Parent | AT&T Inc. |
Website | aiowireless |
Aio Wireless (pronounced /eɪ.oʊ/ "A-O" Wireless) was a prepaid wireless service provider in the United States, wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T Inc. Aio Wireless offered its services using AT&T Mobility's nationwide GSM, HSPA+, and LTE wireless networks. Data plans offer a maximum download speed of 8 Mbit/s using LTE, and 4 Mbit/s using HSPA+ .[1] In May 2014, Aio Wireless merged with Cricket Wireless, due to the acquisition deal by AT&T and Leap Wireless (parent of Cricket Wireless). AT&T, Aio and Cricket later announced that the New Cricket would work on Aio's current wireless network which uses AT&T's network. Cricket's existing network will be converted from CDMA to GSM and merged into the AT&T nationwide network. Cricket will stop offering CDMA devices as early as March 2015 and began selling GSM devices on May 18, 2014.