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June 22, 2008

On Friday, Cricket Communications began offering over-the-air data backup services from Asurion, the two companies said.

Cricket is a no-contract wireless operator, and its users can pay as they go.

Cricket calls its new service My Backup. User's contact data can be saved automatically and wireless subscribers can perform manual backups as well as view the backup history reports.

Subscribers also get an interface and the ability to import contacts from Microsoft Outlook and Yahoo Mail.

My Backup is available in English and Spanish for $2 a month and currently works on twenty phones, Cricket officials said Friday.

Asurion and Cricket were already partners, as Asurion provides Cricket’s handset insurance plan, and has been for the past eighteen months.

Data backup services from mobile operators are becoming increasingly common. Overall, consumers already understand the need to back up data on computers and are gradually accepting modern handsets as technology in need of similar care and security.

Some services go beyond just contacts to also back up a phone’s other data such as pictures and third-party software as well.

Other Asurion customers include Alltel, AT&T, Metro PCS, NTT DoCoMo, Rogers Wireless, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA and of course, Verizon Wireless.

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Source: Cricket Communications.