Cricket Communications should be launching their 4G LTE network soon and is on track according to their third-quarter earnings call on Monday. Cricket CEO Doug Hutcheson said "The introduction of LTE is now an increase in priority for the business, and I'm pleased to report we're on track," and "We expect our first LTE market launch shortly." They hope to have a commercial trial market up and running before the end of the year. The new MVNO relationship with Sprint will allow them to upgrade to 4G quikcly and they plan to blanket 25 million POPs by the end of 2012.



