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At&t changing phone uprade eligability for many iphone users
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$100 rule FTW. I get a new iPhone every 12 months at the fully subsidized price and sell my old one for more than I paid for it. It's a great system!
Can someone elaborate on the $100 rule?
Spend over $100/month and the upgrade schedule is accelerated...or something like that.
How does it account for family plans? I have a family plan with 5 members all with iPhones. We pay about $260 a month. I am the head of the account. I am qualified for an upgrade on 6/21/10 but other members who purchased iPhones at the same time are not qualified until early 2011.
Any Canadians talk to anyone at Rogers about this? The online account information doesn't give a date or anything.
I found this on AT&T's site: http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/why/upgrade-advantage.jsp
This seems to give you an extra discount on upgrades and not an accelerated upgrade time. Is the "$100 rule" something different than AT&T's "Upgrade Advantage"?
Yea I did the number. 12/22. But I guess some ATT guy said Sept about a month ago.
I got my 3G S on launch day, which was 6 months before my Dad got his, and he's eligible 11/4/10 and I'm 2/21/11.. That's logical. I'll upgrade launch day this year anyways,
Purchased my iphone 3G on 9/12/08. Says I'm eligible 5/13/10. Knocked off 4 months for me. I pay $75 a month for my plan.
How does the early upgrade work? I bought the 3GS on launch day and AT&T says I am able to upgrade in 02/2011.. so is that the month I am able to get a new iphone for $200/300? And as for the early upgrade will I be able to get the new iphone come June/July for the $400/500 price? with the early upgrade does the 2-year time frame start over again? Sorry for the noobish questions I'm just new to all this upgrade stuff, this will be my first go around with it.
Just call AT&T and ask. They can tell you exactly what your options are. We can only guess.
My upgrade date changed this month from 11/20 to 6/20 but that is because I upped my minute plan to 900 minutes. If you are willing to pay $100/month before tax and other charges, they will upgrade you once a year. My total bill is now $120/month.
I checked my eligibility and it had not changed.
I'm at a point where I'll probably just switch over to the incredible if ATT is going to charge me a ton of money for the new iPhone.
that's the issue with apple/att now. They're not the only game in town and if they get greedy by charging existing customers exorbitant prices to upgrade, they'll probably lose some of us.
I'm at a point where I'll probably just switch over to the incredible if ATT is going to charge me a ton of money for the new iPhone.
that's the issue with apple/att now. They're not the only game in town and if they get greedy by charging existing customers exorbitant prices to upgrade, they'll probably lose some of us.
From there you need to choose a product. Then it will show either a note w/ a date or just prices.
I believe the $100/month requirement is voice plans, and does not include txt plans. Not sure if data plan is included, or early nights and the other little features.
Based on all the replies and my own case, the article for the OP seems to be BS. There's nothing to see here. Move along.
For Premier accounts. You select iPhone after clicking Upgrade eligibility. Then it will show you at the top when you are able to upgrade with discount. I bought my 3GS on launch day and it still shows 2/11/11. But I have a family plan with 4 lines with 1 iphone, and I am paying under $100 per month. Donno if that /month cost really makes a difference.
Did the text and got this: "A full discount on a standard handset or Iphone upgrade is not available at this time but you may qualify on 7-29-11. We can offer you a discounted iphone upgrade at a higher price with a 2 yr commitment and $18 upgrade fee." What is the higher price? I'm surprised with the update date though. I bought my 3gs on Black Friday so I figured that would be when it was availbable for an update. May have to skip this phone nad pick up the next one.
Well my full upgrade date was in September, but it now shows I'm eligible for a full upgrade now.