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Carrier ATT To Tmobile Pre Order Question

mynameisjeffLA said:
I'll be online tonight at midnight. Let's keep each other updated on our progress.
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Awesome. I'm in the Bay Area so I'll be up!
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yomnym said:
Rest assure even if they ask for account number, paskey and number to port, not a thing will happen. I did this 4 times lol.

I'll be placing my order tonight as well, cheers.
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Thanks for your feedback and information. I'm glad I made this thread. Looks like we'll all be up tonight!
 
I decided to call T Mobile and the foreign based CSR told me something different than this thread has been saying.

He said I have to wait till my contract is up to pre order and that if I did it tonight I would be hit with the ETF from ATT.

I'm so confused now..
 
12vElectronics said:
I decided to call T Mobile and the foreign based CSR told me something different than this thread has been saying.

He said I have to wait till my contract is up to pre order and that if I did it tonight I would be hit with the ETF from ATT.

I'm so confused now..
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What???
 
That's why I'm just going to sign up as a "new" customer. And switch my number over after the 12th.

I am not paying no ETF.
 
12vElectronics said:
Will porting your old number be a big deal? Any additional costs/lines/etc?
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Apparently not. You just go in and they will port your old AT&T number to the new phone. Since our contract will be expired, essentially there is nothing AT&T can do as far as ETF's.

This is all assumption from what I heard.
 
12vElectronics said:
Hello,
Here's my dilemma.

I currently am on a 2 year contract with AT&T.

Start date: 9/12/2014
End date: 9/12/2016

I plan on switching to T Mobile.

IF I pre order tonight on T Mobiles website 9/9/2016, will it trigger the ETF and start the whole transition process with T mobile? Or will all that occur when I get the phone on 9/16/16, which by then my AT&T contract would have ended.

Thanks for any help!
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I am in the exact situation. You will not trigger any ETF. Your phone won't even be activated until 9/16. My T-Mobile SIM card just arrived today. They gave me a different phone number. All I have to do is port my old number over when my contract ends next week Monday and my iPhone 6 is unlocked. Bye bye AT&T.

I am doing the iPhone 7 upgrade deal that T-Mobile is offering. I will trade in my iPhone 6plus 128gb for the 7plus 128gb. From what I was told I would pay $220 plus taxes spread out over 24 months.
 
ray737 said:
I am in the exact situation. You will not trigger any ETF. Your phone won't even be activated until 9/16. My T-Mobile SIM card just arrived today. They gave me a different phone number. All I have to do is port my old number over when my contract ends next week Monday and my iPhone 6 is unlocked. Bye bye AT&T.

I am doing the iPhone 7 upgrade deal that T-Mobile is offering. I will trade in my iPhone 6plus 128gb for the 7plus 128gb. From what I was told I would pay $220 plus taxes spread out over 24 months.
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I'm getting the standard 32gb 7 for free. How much do I have to put up for the pre-order? It should be nothing right?
If its "free"?
 
ray737 said:
I am in the exact situation. You will not trigger any ETF. Your phone won't even be activated until 9/16. My T-Mobile SIM card just arrived today. They gave me a different phone number. All I have to do is port my old number over when my contract ends next week Monday and my iPhone 6 is unlocked. Bye bye AT&T.

I am doing the iPhone 7 upgrade deal that T-Mobile is offering. I will trade in my iPhone 6plus 128gb for the 7plus 128gb. From what I was told I would pay $220 plus taxes spread out over 24 months.
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Ray thanks for sharing your story.

So from a logistical standpoint, you're saying tonight at 12:01am I should purchase a new Tmobile phone/plan with a new phone number? Basically don't tell them I'm coming from ATT? Then NEXT week when the phone comes walk into T mobile and tell them I want to port over?
 
12vElectronics said:
Ray thanks for sharing your story.

So from a logistical standpoint, you're saying tonight at 12:01am I should purchase a new Tmobile phone/plan with a new phone number? Basically don't tell them I'm coming from ATT? Then NEXT week when the phone comes walk into T mobile and tell them I want to port over?
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You can tell them you're switching from AT&T doesn't make a difference. You decide when you officially port your number over. They really don't care when you do it.
 
12vElectronics said:
Ray thanks for sharing your story.

So from a logistical standpoint, you're saying tonight at 12:01am I should purchase a new Tmobile phone/plan with a new phone number? Basically don't tell them I'm coming from ATT? Then NEXT week when the phone comes walk into T mobile and tell them I want to port over?
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So what happened?

Did you preorder your phone?

How much did they charge upfront in total?
 
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