opening hours at Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer in San Jose, what are they these days?
Question · by reading_reviews_on_san · Member since Jul 2026 · 10 posts · 7w7 weeks ago
Cell phone store in San Jose, CA
4.9 · 457 reviewsOpens today at 10 AMOpens today at 10 AM
Wireless provider offering prepaid mobile phones, coverage plans & a range of accessories.
Eligible to offer 20% cashback to customers who shop here.OrbitBack
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What Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
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No code detected[Photo 4]When it's quiet, where to park, and what's nearby.
Kategna Ethiopian Restaurant is next door for Ethiopian food. Sliders Burger is next door for hamburgers. Jack in the Box is a 3 minute walk for fast food.
Nearby places from Google Maps, read Sep 20, 2026.
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
What reviews, press and directories say about Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer.
4.9from 457 reviews on Google
This store features a mix of attentive staff like Brenda and Luis, but inconsistent service quality can lead to frustrating experiences. Customers describe a mix of positive and negative experiences at this Cricket Wireless location. While some employees, like Brenda and Luis, are praised for their helpfulness and compassion, others have reported rude service and poor communication. The overall atmosphere seems to vary significantly depending on the staff member assisting.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
28 San Jose avg
Signal and how much it countsCricket Wireless Authorized Retailer
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Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer, as AI sees it. Blue signals help Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer, and red ones hold it back.
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The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Cell phone stores in San Jose, CA · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 14, 2026.
Published September 14, 2026 · Updated September 14, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer is a cell phone store in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 38 of 100, which is poor.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Cell phone store |
| Address | 1663 W San Carlos St Ste C, San Jose, CA 95128, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 10 AM to 8 PM · Sat 10 AM to 7 PM · Sun 11 AM to 6 PM |
| Phone | (408) 380-4980 |
| Rating | 4.9 across 457 reviews on Google |
| Updated | September 14, 2026 |
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location info | Address | 1663 W San Carlos St Ste C, San Jose, CA 95128, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Wireless provider offering prepaid mobile phones, coverage plans & a range of accessories. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM · Sat 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM · Sun 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (408) 380-4980 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Mobile coverage plans | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Mobile phone accessories | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Prepaid mobile phones | AI guess | |
| Links | https://facebook.com/cricketwireless | AI guess | Our record | |
| Links | https://instagram.com/cricketwireless | AI guess | Our record | |
| Links | Website | https://www.cricketwireless.com/stores/ca/san-jose/1663-w-san-carlos-st-ste-c?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Organic_Search&utm_campaign=Yext_Listings | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
Address: 1663 W San Carlos St Ste C, San Jose, CA 95128, USA. Phone: (408) 380-4980. Hours: Mon to Fri 10 AM to 8 PM · Sat 10 AM to 7 PM · Sun 11 AM to 6 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
From Google Business Profile: "Wireless provider offering prepaid mobile phones, coverage plans & a range of accessories."
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Kategna Ethiopian Restaurant | Ethiopian restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Sliders Burger | Hamburger restaurant | 1 min walk |
| San Carlos & Buena Vista | Bus stop | 3 min walk |
| Jack in the Box | Fast food restaurant | 3 min walk |
| El Papucho Mexican Food | Mexican restaurant | 3 min walk |
| SAN CARLOS and BUENA VISTA | Transit station | 3 min walk |
4.9 average across 457 reviews: Google 457. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)
(AI guess, from 457 reviews.)
It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose cell phone stores run 24 to 38. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer scores 38, above the San Jose average of 28. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 39 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 95 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 66 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 82 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 77 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
How AI decides what to say about a cell phone store: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business
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| San Jose, California | City | #city | City Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer is in | |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the cell phone stores in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.
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# Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer, San Jose CA: Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/cricket-wireless-authorized-retailer-san-jose-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-14. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/cricket-wireless-authorized-retailer-san-jose-ca ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer is a cell phone store in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 38 of 100, which is poor. What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Cell phone store | | Address | 1663 W San Carlos St Ste C, San Jose, CA 95128, USA | | Hours | Mon to Fri 10 AM to 8 PM · Sat 10 AM to 7 PM · Sun 11 AM to 6 PM | | Phone | (408) 380-4980 | | Rating | 4.9 across 457 reviews on Google | | Updated | September 14, 2026 | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 1663 W San Carlos St Ste C, San Jose, CA 95128, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Description | Wireless provider offering prepaid mobile phones, coverage plans & a range of accessories. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM · Sat 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM · Sun 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Name | Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Phone | (408) 380-4980 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Monday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Thursday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Friday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Saturday | 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Services | Service | Mobile coverage plans | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Mobile phone accessories | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Prepaid mobile phones | AI guess | | | Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/cricketwireless | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/cricketwireless | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | https://www.cricketwireless.com/stores/ca/san-jose/1663-w-san-carlos-st-ste-c?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Organic_Search&utm_campaign=Yext_Listings | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | ## Services and prices Add your services so AI can say what you offer ### Known for Share your review link so AI can say what you're known for ## The team Add your team so AI can name who works here ## Visiting Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer Address: 1663 W San Carlos St Ste C, San Jose, CA 95128, USA. Phone: (408) 380-4980. Hours: Mon to Fri 10 AM to 8 PM · Sat 10 AM to 7 PM · Sun 11 AM to 6 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile From Google Business Profile: "Wireless provider offering prepaid mobile phones, coverage plans & a range of accessories." ### Parking and getting in Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Kategna Ethiopian Restaurant | Ethiopian restaurant | 1 min walk | | Sliders Burger | Hamburger restaurant | 1 min walk | | San Carlos & Buena Vista | Bus stop | 3 min walk | | Jack in the Box | Fast food restaurant | 3 min walk | | El Papucho Mexican Food | Mexican restaurant | 3 min walk | | SAN CARLOS and BUENA VISTA | Transit station | 3 min walk | ## Reputation 4.9 average across 457 reviews: Google 457. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.) (AI guess, from 457 reviews.) ### What people do not like - Rude customer service from some employees - Inconsistent store hours - Long waits to receive assistance ### Press Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you ### Awards Add an award so AI can name it ### Directories Get listed in directories so AI can tell you're real ## Questions people ask ### opening hours at Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer in San Jose, what are they these days? ### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review? ### torn between Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer and Maria Mobile? ### genuinely, what is good about this one ### cancellation list here, is there one ### first visit at Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer, what do I need to bring? ### budget options in San Jose, what is decent ### membership, worth it or not ### What do shoppers most often mention buying at the shop? ### what else is on San Carlos around the shop? ### anything new from Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer lately? ### Whereabouts is the shop? ### best cell phone store in San Jose ### prices round here, anyone got a number ## The AI Score: 38 of 100 It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose cell phone stores run 24 to 38. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer scores 38, above the San Jose average of 28. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 39 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor | | Reviews & response | 12 | 95 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 66 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 82 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 77 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology How AI decides what to say about a cell phone store: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.cricketwireless.com/stores/ca/san-jose/1663-w-san-carlos-st-ste-c?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Organic_Search&utm_campaign=Yext_Listings | Subject of this page | | San Jose, California | City | #city | | City Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the cell phone stores in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best cell phone stores in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/cell-phone-store - Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view - /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ9SaahZjLj4ARk3ZgUKJMyGA (accessed Sep 14, 2026) - [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 22, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Cell phone stores in San Jose, CA · Editorial</p>
<h2>Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer, San Jose CA: Reviews</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 14, 2026.</p>
<p>Published September 14, 2026 · Updated September 14, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
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<h3>In short</h3>
<p>Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer is a cell phone store in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 38 of 100, which is poor.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
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<h3>Key facts</h3>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Type</td><td>Cell phone store</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>1663 W San Carlos St Ste C, San Jose, CA 95128, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Fri 10 AM to 8 PM · Sat 10 AM to 7 PM · Sun 11 AM to 6 PM</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(408) 380-4980</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.9 across 457 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>September 14, 2026</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-all-the-details">
<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>1663 W San Carlos St Ste C, San Jose, CA 95128, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>Wireless provider offering prepaid mobile phones, coverage plans & a range of accessories.</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Fri 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM · Sat 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM · Sun 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(408) 380-4980</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>10:00 AM to 7:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>11:00 AM to 6:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Mobile coverage plans</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Mobile phone accessories</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Prepaid mobile phones</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Facebook</td><td>https://facebook.com/cricketwireless</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Our record</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Instagram</td><td>https://instagram.com/cricketwireless</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Our record</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>https://www.cricketwireless.com/stores/ca/san-jose/1663-w-san-carlos-st-ste-c?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Organic_Search&utm_campaign=Yext_Listings</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<h4>Known for</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
</section>
<section id="ai-visiting-cricket-wireless-authorized-retailer">
<h3>Visiting Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer</h3>
<p>Address: 1663 W San Carlos St Ste C, San Jose, CA 95128, USA. Phone: (408) 380-4980. Hours: Mon to Fri 10 AM to 8 PM · Sat 10 AM to 7 PM · Sun 11 AM to 6 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>From Google Business Profile: "Wireless provider offering prepaid mobile phones, coverage plans & a range of accessories."</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Kategna Ethiopian Restaurant</td><td>Ethiopian restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Sliders Burger</td><td>Hamburger restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>San Carlos & Buena Vista</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>3 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Jack in the Box</td><td>Fast food restaurant</td><td>3 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>El Papucho Mexican Food</td><td>Mexican restaurant</td><td>3 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>SAN CARLOS and BUENA VISTA</td><td>Transit station</td><td>3 min walk</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.9 average across 457 reviews: Google 457. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)</p>
<p> (AI guess, from 457 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Rude customer service from some employees</li>
<li>Inconsistent store hours</li>
<li>Long waits to receive assistance</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>opening hours at Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer in San Jose, what are they these days?</h4>
<h4>Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?</h4>
<h4>torn between Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer and Maria Mobile?</h4>
<h4>genuinely, what is good about this one</h4>
<h4>cancellation list here, is there one</h4>
<h4>first visit at Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer, what do I need to bring?</h4>
<h4>budget options in San Jose, what is decent</h4>
<h4>membership, worth it or not</h4>
<h4>What do shoppers most often mention buying at the shop?</h4>
<h4>what else is on San Carlos around the shop?</h4>
<h4>anything new from Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer lately?</h4>
<h4>Whereabouts is the shop?</h4>
<h4>best cell phone store in San Jose</h4>
<h4>prices round here, anyone got a number</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 38 of 100</h3>
<p>It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose cell phone stores run 24 to 38. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer scores 38, above the San Jose average of 28. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>25</td><td>Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>39</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>0</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>95</td><td>The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>66</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>90</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td>82</td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>77</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>How AI decides what to say about a cell phone store: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-entity-map">
<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>https://www.cricketwireless.com/stores/ca/san-jose/1663-w-san-carlos-st-ste-c?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Organic_Search&utm_campaign=Yext_Listings</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>San Jose, California</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td></td><td>City Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-topical-map">
<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the cell phone stores in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best cell phone stores in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/cell-phone-store</li>
<li>Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles</li>
<li>/san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco</li>
<li>/san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego</li>
<li>/irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine</li>
<li>/mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view</li>
<li>/santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-references">
<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ9SaahZjLj4ARk3ZgUKJMyGA (accessed Sep 14, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 22, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)</li>
</ul>
</section>
</article>
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</html>This is the evidence for every fact on this page, across Locals, Services, Team, Visit, Reputation and Updates. Each reference names the fact, the source, what kind of source it is, and the date it was checked, with a link and an archived copy so anyone can verify it. Visitor references are dated firsthand accounts. AI guesses record what an AI engine said on that date, not what is true.