Ya you can't make partial payments. I just went through this and signed up with next, paid nothing down, waited a couple of months then paid the phone off fully and the installment came off my monthly bill, as it should. Then att unlocked the phone for me. I really like it. Worked out great.
again, this makes no sense. You can pay as much as you want on an AT&T bill online, why wouldn't that be the same for Next?
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I think he was referring to giving them something like $200 towards the phone. Not paying the full price because then there would be no purpose in singing up Next.
No purpose for the consumer. For AT&T it's still 649 bucks in their pocket.