Cricket Wireless LLC is an American prepaid wireless service provider, wholly owned by AT&T. It provides wireless services to 13 million subscribers in the United States as of 2022. Cricket Wireless was founded in March 1999 by Leap Wireless International. AT&T acquired Leap Wireless International in March 2014, and later merged Cricket Wireless operations with Aio Wireless. Cricket Wireless competes primarily against T-Mobile's Metro by T-Mobile and Verizon's Total Wireless in the prepaid wireless segment.