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Roll Over minutes Overload

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hexonxonx

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Jul 4, 2007
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So I have 4540 roll over minutes.

Today I get an SMS stating that AT&T has given me 1,000 roll over minutes and I just have to reply with a yes to get them. :eek:

I have never even used all off my 450 minutes in any single month in four years and they want me to have more!
 
hexonxonx said:
So I have 4540 roll over minutes.

Today I get an SMS stating that AT&T has given me 1,000 roll over minutes and I just have to reply with a yes to get them. :eek:

I have never even used all off my 450 minutes in any single month in four years and they want me to have more!
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You have been with them for four years and they want to reward you, possibly. You should consider downgrading plans seeing you have so many minutes already.
 
MaxBurn said:
How much data do you use? Consider prepaid?
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iPhone isn't approved for use with prepaid. Also, Last year I did try using a prepaid GoPhone account on my 3GS but AT&T throttles the prepaid data on iPhones. The speed is worse than edge speeds.

I'm fine using paying what I do to use the iPhone. Data is what I use the most, on average of 5-8GB a month. Can't do that on prepaid.
 
hexonxonx said:
450 minutes is the smallest plan available, that's the one I have.
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If you got rid of the voice plan and just used rollover minutes, I don't know if they will allow that though, you could lose the rollover minutes.. Do you have to have a voice plan as part of your contract or something?
 
They are useless minutes that they know, from your history, you will not use anyway. It is there way to say thanks
 
I'm in the same boat as you with tons of rollover minutes. Among all the hate regarding AT&T's data and texting plans, I really wish they would offer a cheaper calling plan. I have the smallest plan and don't use 99% of my minutes. It's ridiculous how much I have to pay for that.
 
I have the 1400 package with 5 lines and had over 5k rollover minutes. So I switch to the 700 plan and kept my 5k rollover minutes.
 
I received the same message as well, and I have over 6K rollover minutes. So much so that they actually are expiring (since I've had them for more than a year), so for them to give me an extra 1K rollover minutes, I don't think it'll register in their system anyways.

That's their way of thanking me for butt raping all these years.
 
I also have about 5K of rollover minutes from only being on ATT for a YEAR! This is the only reason I won't switch to an unlimited minute plan, because It would be stupid to lose that many "free" minutes and pay more for something that I don't need.
 
I agree with others it is a useless benefit that cost nothing to ATT. Even if you could downgrade the number of minutes on a monthly basis you find out there is a catch. Any change to the contract terms and you lose all the roll over minutes accumulated.
 
I have over 6K, almost 7K Rollover Minutes.

I hardly use my Anytime Minutes because I have the AT&T 700 Minute Unity Plan. I have unlimited calling to AT&T Mobile Phones and Landlines plus unlimited Mobile to ANY Mobile because of the texting plan I have.
 
I have 700 minute plan with alist. I have google voice set up so when I make a non mobile call it doesn't take away from our minutes therefore we have a load of rollover minutes. Hardly use minutes because of alist/ google voice combination. Even gave up our landline because in reality we have unlimited calling with the alist/google voice combo.
 
bad03xtreme said:
Start calling more people. :p
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I know you were making a joke, but we all might have to be start making more calls soon if we don't want our bill to go up... (this is for landline phones, but who knows if AT&T will implement this on cell phones).

AT&T Now Charging You For Not Using Enough Long Distance
AT&T has added a new $2-a-month "minimum use" fee to the phone bills of landline customers who don't have long-distance calling plans. In other words, customers who rarely, if ever, make long-distance calls are the ones most likely to pay the fee. Those customers can avoid the fee, a company spokeswoman said, as long as they make at least $2 worth of long-distance calls a month.
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http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Now-Charging-You-For-Not-Using-Enough-Long-Distance-115869
 
I'm not even going to admit how many rollover minutes I have. Far too many.

My complaint is that if you have a certain number of phones on a contract you are forced up the minutes chain. Add another phone sir? Certainly. But you have to move to the next minute tier - even though you have thousands of the little perishers stacked up that will never get used.
 
Jakerz said:
I have over 6K, almost 7K Rollover Minutes.

I hardly use my Anytime Minutes because I have the AT&T 700 Minute Unity Plan. I have unlimited calling to AT&T Mobile Phones and Landlines plus unlimited Mobile to ANY Mobile because of the texting plan I have.
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Same here!
 
Anyone else wish that rollover data would become a possibility?
(I know it won't happen. This is just wishful thinking. It would be kinda counterproductive since they removed unlimited data).
 
I had thousands and when I downgraded my plan they said they would take them away. I fought it and they left me with 1000 rollover minutes but basically rollover minutes are useless to many people.
 
Last summer, when I was at home doing nothing, I decided to call my gf almost everyday, and talk for a good portion of the day. Why I didn't use my landline, who knows. Anyways, my brother and parents got PISSED when they saw that not only had I used up this month's allocation of minutes, I also used up almost 6000 rollover minutes...
 
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