AT&T Not Bringing Text-to-911 to Cricket’s CDMA Network

AT&T is coming along with its voluntary commitment to deploy text-to-911 service on its networks. But the carrier won’t be bringing that technology to Cricket Wireless, at least while AT&T’s newly acquired prepaid carrier still runs on code division multiple access (CDMA).

In a filing with the Federal Communications Commission, AT&T said both Cricket and Aio Wireless -- AT&T’s existing prepaid brand which the carrier intends to merge with Cricket -- are exempt from the carrier’s voluntary commitment to roll out text-to-911 by May 15, 2014.