Aio Wireless plans have not been sold since 2014. Aio was a prepaid brand that AT&T ran on its own network. When AT&T bought the company behind Cricket Wireless, it folded the two together and kept the Cricket name.
What happened to Aio Wireless
AT&T completed its purchase of Leap Wireless, Cricket’s parent company, on March 13, 2014. The date is in AT&T’s filing with the SEC.
Aio put up a merger page within days. Its FAQ explained the plan: “The original Cricket will merge with AT&T’s brand Aio Wireless to become the new Cricket.” It added that “the Cricket brand, network, assets, and employees will combine with Aio Wireless” in the weeks that followed.
Aio’s own site was still running under the Aio name on May 1, 2014. Wikipedia dates the merger to May 2014. We could not find the exact day the Aio name was dropped in a source from AT&T or Cricket.
What Aio customers were told
To do nothing. The merger page said: “As an Aio customer, you don’t need to do anything. The only change you’ll see in the coming months is the logo.” And in the FAQ: “For Aio customers nothing changes except the brand.”
Both pages are kept by the Internet Archive.
Where the service is now
With Cricket Wireless, which AT&T still owns and which still runs on AT&T’s network. The old aiowireless.com address now goes to Cricket’s site.
Cricket’s current plans are on our Cricket Wireless page. Other brands on the same network are on our AT&T MVNOs page.
Aio Wireless data settings
A phone that still holds Aio’s old settings needs Cricket’s. The old APN was
ndo and Cricket’s is endo. Both sets of values are on our
Aio Wireless APN settings page.