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Apple Announces iPhone Service Plans

ajhill said:
They won't be charging you a cancellation fee for going from 3 lines to 2, IF they want to keep your parent's 2 lines on the account. If they try to charge you a cancellation fee for dropping 1 of the 3 lines, then take all three lines with you to ATT and don't look back.
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thank you for the information!
 
Contract terms from video!!

Downloaded the iPhone Activation & Sync video and went thru the contracts frame by frame and found the information I'm most interested in:

Early Termination Fee (ETF): $175

You will have 30 days from the date of activation to terminate your contract without an ETF, but you will still have to pay activation ($36) and whatever portion of the monthly service fee you have used.

You can cancel within 3 (three) days of activation and get your activation fee refunded.
 
MacKenzie999 said:
Was planning on waiting for v2, but these rate plans have me reconsidering.

I'd be switching carriers for this, any Bostonians out there have AT&T, and if so, how do you like their service?

Thanks!
-Mike
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My phone is based out of CT, but I've been in Boston for a while, and I've yet to have a problem with service or anything up here.
 
Good question for current at&t customers such as myself

I've been asking this question everywhere, but so far, no luck.

I am on a family plan with 3 lines of service. One of these lines will be getting the iPhone in the next couple of weeks. To do so, I will be signing up for another 2 years of service; however, our current 2-year plan does not end until May of 2008. My question is this: Will I be able to receive a 2-year activation discount on phones other than the iPhone for the other 2 lines on my account that will not be getting iPhones? All 3 lines will be under a new 2-year agreement, so it would seem fair to allow me to upgrade the other two phones with the special new-contract pricing.

Anyone in this situation?
 
io_burn said:
Why do you insist on trolling every iPhone thread with this worthless drivel? The OVERWHELMING majority of the people here think these plans are awesome. Why don't you go write about how stupid we all are on your blog instead of lowering yourself to posting here with us uninformed terrible excuse for consumers?
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So those of us who don't agree with the blatant fanboyism displayed here should just shut up? Censor the people who have a different opinion? Yeah, how nice :rolleyes:

I have somewhere to be in 10 minutes anyways, sadly, I won't be able to "troll" as you call it for awhile
 
berkleeboy210 said:
I'm wondering I already got Pre-Approved with a Credit Check I had ATT run yesterday at the store.

The guy gave what's called a "Ban" number, and told me to give that number to whomever I see on Friday when getting the Phone.

But now that activation is being done through iTunes, I'm wondering if they'll have to run my credit again?

Anyone know?
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Yep, if you watch the activation video on Apple.com...there is a spot to put that number instead of your social security #.
 
PharmD said:
Hey Arn,
However, there is a huge big 'ol asterisk next to them saying that they include one line. Do they mean one iPhone line and another non-iphone line? According to the fine print, an additional iPhone line is $29.99 under the family plan.

Bottom line, prices given, details shady.
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Yeah, it looks like that's a plan with one iphone and one regular phone. Although adding iPhone for $30 more seems extra pricey at that point, given it's only $20 on the first line.
 
yg17 said:
So those of us who don't agree with the blatant fanboyism displayed here should just shut up? Censor the people who have a different opinion? Yeah, how nice :rolleyes:

I have somewhere to be in 10 minutes anyways, sadly, I won't be able to "troll" as you call it for awhile
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ARGH, I HATE THE FOLLOWING:

-GEORGE W
-APPLE FANBOYS
-GLOBAL WARMING

MY LIVEJOURNAL FRIENDS LIST WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS AT&T PRICING OUTRAGE!
 
kemck said:
I just watched the new Activate your iPhone video and noticed in the section for syncing your data the section shows the same size as a 80 gig iPod...am I wrong or wasn't 8gig the top size for this beauty?
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I was just going to point this out. I call fake! :rolleyes:

Interesting they've dropped the ringtones tab though...
 
WOW, they found something else to complain about.

Okay, now that they pricing came out and it starts at $59 you might think that all the plan pricing talk would go away.

Now their complaining that there aren't enough minutes included for a low enough rate. 450 minutes, free nights and weekends and free mobile to mobile (ATT only I would guess). That's plenty for me.

Maybe this will encourage people to talk less whilst driving down the road! These plans could help reduced traffic congestion! ;)

No seriously the plans are much better than anyone expected.

Now if Skype could hurry up with the iPhone client...
 
Littleodie914 said:
Does anyone else think this is really expensive? :confused: I have a phone with Alltel and I get 700 minutes, unlimited long distance, unlimited nights and weekends, and 300 SMS messages for $39.99 a month.
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And no data plan.

Alltel offers really good plans, especially here in MI, but with no data, the iPhone becomes a really expensive iPod that you get calls on.
 
For those that pointed out the 80GB iPhone


What is considered "other" on a iPod? :D


-nickspohn
 
This is great. The 1400-minute family plan ($100) is only $11 more than with the regular non-iPhone AT&T plan ($89.99), but for that eleven bucks price difference, you get unlimited data ($20-40 value) and 200 text (3-5$ value). That's amazing!

1400 minutes/mobile-to-mobile/nights and weekends are $89.99 at Sprint, and you'd have to pay $15 PER LINE for unlimited Vision, which is barely-real internet and usually they put PDA phones on the $25/line Vision pack. Then text messages are 300/$5 per line. So for the same thing at Sprint, I'd be paying $150.

Verizon's 1400-minute family plan is $89.99, as well. Vcast internet is $15/month per line ($30), and text messaging is $10 for 500 ($20). Again, $40/month more than Apple's, though a bit more internet.

I think these plans are stellar. They really DID subsidize some of the cost of the data plan in exchange for the 2-year contract.
 
cirby said:
I have an old AT&T plan that costs me about $60, but has free roaming. Data, but a VERY limited data volume.

...and when I show people my phone, they're astounded by how old it is and that it still works...

Heck, I have to buy a new desktop just to make the iPhone work (my current machine won't run anything newer than 10.2.8, and I can't run the version of iTunes needed).

I REALLY wish they'd come out with those new iMacs that were in the rumor pool. I may have to settle for a current-model 20 incher.
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Tell me about it. I have the cash to get the iPhone on Friday...BUT my machine is so old it would be a waste. I'm saving to get a new Macbook first and then the iPhone.
 
It is a minor annoyance, but you can send text messages from ATT's website. I'm sure there will be an iPhone webapp soon to send text messages, so the 200 messages will not be a big deal
 
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