Yeah, they throttle you after 1GB. That's the worst thing about Cricket IMO. Their data speeds are pretty decent if you have a good signal, about 1-1.5 mbps down. Even after they throttle you, it's still usable for pretty much everything except streaming video. But Boost is supposed to be getting the LG Optimus Black. (they're calling it a different name, can't remember what. There was an article about it on Phandroid a few days ago). That's a pretty nice phone. You might want to look into that if you are happy with Boost. Also, Cricket has their own towers in their "home" areas, but they made an agreement with Sprint to use their towers so they could go nationwide. Boost and Virgin are both actually owned by Sprint.