iphone question *desperately in need of an answer*

[gothamm]

ok so i am already in a two year agreement with ATT.

my agreement expires in feb 2009

my question is that would i have to extend my contract another two years if i want to buy an iphone, or can i just add an iphone data plan to my existing account.

other words, i dont want to extend my contract for 2 more years. i still want it to end on feb 2009, and just add the data plan for an extra 20 a month.

is that possible?

 

[srichart1]

Extend

ok so i am already in a two year agreement with ATT.

my agreement expires in feb 2009

my question is that would i have to extend my contract another two years if i want to buy an iphone, or can i just add an iphone data plan to my existing account.

other words, i dont want to extend my contract for 2 more years. i still want it to end on feb 2009, and just add the data plan for an extra 20 a month.

is that possible?

The Iphone requires a 2 year agreement, so it will extend your current one by at least 2 years.

 

[chriswheat]

This has been discussed many times before and it seems the consensus is that you'll always need to renew your 2 year contract.



https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/383767/

 

[MooneyFlyer]

I bought my iPhone about 3-4 months after buying a BlackBerry Pearl from AT&T. At the time of the BB purchase I had to renew my 2 year agreement to get the good price. When I purchased my iPhone I did have to sign up for a 2 year agreement but they seemed to forgive my prior agreement. This weekend a friend of mine did same thing with the same results -- a new two year agreement starting the day of the iPhone purchase not 2 years tacked on to the previous agreement.

It seems that the iPhone is the only phone that AT&T has that will allow you to not fully honor the time term in your previous agreement. I am not 100% positive, but it certainly looks this way. I would imagine that Apple specifically created this "exception" to provide more people access to the iPhone sooner.

Obviously, you should confirm this with AT&T before moving foward.

 

[question fear]

It's true, you're contract will reset with two years starting from the day you activate the iphone. So you won't go 2009+2 years, it will be X date+2 years...so you're really only getting locked into an ATT contract for another 9-10 months over where you'd ordinarily be out of contract.