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AT&T To Offer No-Contract iPhones to Existing Customers Starting March 26th?

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Boy Genius Report claims to have received slides from an internal AT&T training presentation revealing that AT&T will be offering contract-free iPhone 3Gs to existing customers beginning on March 26th. iPhone 3Gs will be priced at $599 for the 8 GB model and $699 for the 16 GB model, and no service agreement or device activation is required.


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By limiting the "No-Commit" pricing option to existing customers and one per active mobile number, AT&T is apparently aiming to limit the number of phones being purchased for unlocking and use on other networks.
AT&T is restricting the No-Commit price to existing customers who wish to add a line, purchase as a gift, or perform and [sic] upgrade and are not eligible for the Qualified or Early upgrade price.
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While AT&T is planning to limit sales to one per active mobile number, the training materials apparently reveal that AT&T has only limited means of enforcing this restriction. Only sales made at company-owned retail (COR) stores will show up in OPUS, AT&T's point-of-sale system. Otherwise, there is no indicator in the billing system denoting such sales.

Article Link: AT&T To Offer No-Contract iPhones to Existing Customers Starting March 26th?
 
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Why not just Pay As You Go?

This sounds like Pay As You Go with some fancy wording right..?
 
audioteknika said:
$600 for 8GB ? Hehe.. funny guys..
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On launch day, I went to an AT&T store to buy an iPhone and ended up with an 8gb one. I returned it the next day after the Apple store had a few 16gb ones, and in between me returning the iphone and purchasing the new one, AT&T didn't reset my account to show that I was eligible for an upgrade still. It showed the price of $699 upon my attempt to purchase it. This has been structured for a while, it's just now AT&T is advertising it.
 
Not fully unlocked!, Just you can use it with AT&T the way you want, Pay as you Go or any other plan, not the just the iPhone plan!
 
Seems reasonable to some. Too expensive for me.

I'll keep holding out for the iPhone on verizon even though its not coming..
 
In my view, this is a move to CLEAR OUT inventory ahead of a new iPhone model.
 
Seeing as how you can only use the iPhone on AT&T anyway unless you hack it, I don't see a whole lot of point to this. You may as well just stick with AT&T and sign a 2 year contract.
 
polaris20 said:
Seeing as how you can only use the iPhone on AT&T anyway unless you hack it, I don't see a whole lot of point to this. You may as well just stick with AT&T and sign a 2 year contract.
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I certainly agree with you on this. Though I figure there will be a lot of people who may pay the higher prices just to not be in a contract with anyone. I wouldn't pay that much for a phone but I am sure there are people who would (maybe not many that would admit to it).
 
polaris20 said:
Seeing as how you can only use the iPhone on AT&T anyway unless you hack it, I don't see a whole lot of point to this. You may as well just stick with AT&T and sign a 2 year contract.
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not everyone can get a contract, such as myself. I've had the same phone service for over two years but without a contract (month to month type of thing) but because of credit I can't get a phone without some insane deposit. Before cingular became att I'd looked into their service and they wanted 800 dollars plus the cost of the phone plus the monthly service. If I had the option of a non-contract service plan I'd jump on it
 
I'm all for PAYG/no-contracts, but without it being unlocked, there isn't much point at that price. $399 maybe. I paid that for my 1st gen iPhone which I use with t-mobile PAYG.

I guess it at least provides an option for someone to buy a gift (an expensive gift mind you!) without locking the recipient into an expensive contract that they may not like. Assuming AT&T PAYG SIMs work with it that is... If you have to get an AT&T contract to use it (without unlocking it I mean), then again it doesn't make too much sense.
 
polaris20 said:
Seeing as how you can only use the iPhone on AT&T anyway unless you hack it, I don't see a whole lot of point to this. You may as well just stick with AT&T and sign a 2 year contract.
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I see a point: Spend $400 more upfront to avoid having to pay $30/month x 24 months=$720 for a data plan that I can live without.
 
polaris20 said:
Seeing as how you can only use the iPhone on AT&T anyway unless you hack it, I don't see a whole lot of point to this. You may as well just stick with AT&T and sign a 2 year contract.
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Me neither, I don't see the point. If you only plan to stick with the iPhone for less than a year or two, then why bother paying $600+ for it?
 
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