In past years I have been doing the early upgrade through att wireless. For the 5 and the 5s I was able to pay $450 for the phone through an early upgrade will they be doing this for the next iphone in a couple of weeks?
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AT&T Early Upgrade question
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Gathomblipoob
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Gathomblipoob
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I consider this an AT&T question, not necessarily an Apple question. There has been partial upgrade eligibility for every iPhone except the original one, I believe.
I believe once you are 12 months into your contract with att they allow that early upgrade for $450. You can check now by going onto apples website and visit the iPhone 5s page and on the right there should be an upgrade eligibility button. There it will show you what date you will be eligible for the $450 pricing. Hope this helps.
Yea, there are many identical threads on the first page alone with indepth discussions. Why is it so hard for people to read those first?
Givmeabrek
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You save $50 by paying full price every other year. The early upgrade extends your contract for two years and you essentially are now paying $250 extra every year. If you pay full price that's only $450 extra every other year. Full price is actually less!
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Pardon me for the noob question but you'd be surprised how hard it is to find what the no contract pricing is to know if your available pricing is early upgrade price.
So I'm showing a 16GB space grey 5S available to me for 450$. Is that a discounted rate? And let's say that rumors are true and the 5.5 iphone is 100$ more, what would be my cost for a 64GB one if I do get early upgrade pricing?
So I'm showing a 16GB space grey 5S available to me for 450$. Is that a discounted rate? And let's say that rumors are true and the 5.5 iphone is 100$ more, what would be my cost for a 64GB one if I do get early upgrade pricing?
Yes- the $450 is 'discounted' from the $649 no-contract price. Essentially, after 12mths of being in your contract- where they've recouped 50% of their subsidy- you get the early-upgrade price of $450 (and by doing so re-up for another 24 mths).