Thank God for Student Discounts!!!

[elbirth]

I went to att today to get "pre-approved" for a new contract. I asked about a corporate discount while I was there, and the rep said that he does not know yet about the discount but thinks there will be a discount. From the mixed signals in the posts it seems to me that att reps have no idea about what is going on with the discount.

However, if the IPhone is to have no "special treatment" like all other smart phones then the discount should apply. That is if att holds true to their word about no "special treatment."

I'm holding off at least a few days before I go get pre-approved for this reason... Although it may be unlikely, my hope is that over the next couple days as people go in to do the credit check, they'll ask these questions, the reps will realize they don't know the answer, and will find out so when I go in and ask, they'll have already done the leg work. That's probably a fantasy, but at least it's not like I'm losing a place in line by waiting a few days to do this.

 

[mbaran]

If you look at my screen shot, I logged into my IRU account from my school (company looks the same) and was able to get a discount on the voice plan, and the PDA Unlimited + Unlimited SMS...

There will be discounts on both parts of the line.

 

[elbirth]

If you look at my screen shot, I logged into my IRU account from my school (company looks the same) and was able to get a discount on the voice plan, and the PDA Unlimited + Unlimited SMS...

There will be discounts on both parts of the line.

yes, but that's not an iPhone you tried it on. We're concerned with whether or not the iPhone will be eligible for discounts since the original one was not.

 

[saxamoophone]

You'll be able to use your FAN discounts on your 3G-iPhone. The reason you couldn't on the 1st iPhone was because apple was because of the special deal they had with apple.

Now that the iphone is using a NORMAL smartphone pda plan, all discounts apply.

You get a lower percent off on data as you do for voice, but you still get a percent off.

The at&t memo that was leaked a month ago specifically said FAN's will work now.

I'm sure most at&t people you talk to are just reading from an old script that is no longer valid

 

[saxamoophone]

yes, but that's not an iPhone you tried it on. We're concerned with whether or not the iPhone will be eligible for discounts since the original one was not.

But the old iPhone was not using at&t traditional plans. Now we're using the exact same plans and rates every other phone uses.

I suppose there's a remote chance they still won't apply....but it makes sense why they didn't the first time (you paid 399 for the phone and then another 200-ish to apple over the length of the 2 year contract), and why they should now (you pay 199 for the phone, but apple gets the 599 upfront from at&t....you pay at&t back over 2 years, but at a higher rate).

 

[mbaran]

thats pretty much what it is.. old scripts.

The new plan is just a standard voice/standard data.. the memo from june9 said that FAN's would apply across the board.

 

[brandonzar]

Okay I called AT&T again and got everything figured out. The 15% student discount only applies to the monthly voice plan, in my case I have a family plan and it doesn't even apply to the $9.99 for the second line, it does not apply to a data plan for any phone.

The iPhone has certain contractual restrictions that void any business/education discount on the voice or data plan. However there is a way to get around this if you have a family plan, if the primary account number is not an iPhone then you still get the discount off of the voice plan, but still nothing for the data plan.

Fortunately for me my wife is the primary and she won't be getting an iPhone. The woman I spoke with this time was very familiar with the iPhone plans and I really believe her, but as always this is a forum so take this for what it is worth. She also told me that since I already had an account with AT&T that I could just buy the iPhone and set it up at home.

Update: I e-mailed the guy in charge of my university's discount plan and he said that the the new iPhone is under a new pricing structure so it will be eligible for the FAN discount and I am assuming this applies to the data plan as well, but this maybe different for everyone because it depends on the specific deal that your University/Company has worked out with AT&T. Sorry for any confusion my previous post caused, I blame AT&T.

 

[skik210]

how do you know what your FAN number is?? I cant find mine

nevermind. found it

bottom right hand corner of the premier page for anyone that has the same question

 

[abooch1]

when it says put your email address in i did and it says i qualify..but part of a orginazation i never heard of..im a student in nj and it says im a member of riverside county personnell wtf?

 

[elbirth]

But the old iPhone was not using at&t traditional plans. Now we're using the exact same plans and rates every other phone uses.

I suppose there's a remote chance they still won't apply....but it makes sense why they didn't the first time (you paid 399 for the phone and then another 200-ish to apple over the length of the 2 year contract), and why they should now (you pay 199 for the phone, but apple gets the 599 upfront from at&t....you pay at&t back over 2 years, but at a higher rate).

yeah, but with it being the iPhone, it's still questionable.

I agree that since it's now using a standard plan that it should apply... and people above are saying the memo from a while back specifically said the FAN discounts would work, so hopefully we won't run into any issues on launch day. I'll certainly be writing down my number to bring with me.

 

[brandonzar]

when it says put your email address in i did and it says i qualify..but part of a orginazation i never heard of..im a student in nj and it says im a member of riverside county personnell wtf?

It depends on the last part of your e-mail address, the @'school name'.edu part. Make sure you use your official school e-mail address. But either way if they give you the discount who cares. That could also be the organization your school is set up under.

 

[Awaken]

I'm holding off at least a few days before I go get pre-approved for this reason... Although it may be unlikely, my hope is that over the next couple days as people go in to do the credit check, they'll ask these questions, the reps will realize they don't know the answer, and will find out so when I go in and ask, they'll have already done the leg work. That's probably a fantasy, but at least it's not like I'm losing a place in line by waiting a few days to do this.

Well glad a could help considering I was waiting there to ask about two or three questions for almost two hours because the reps were super slow "helping people", which seems to be a trend with most att stores I go to. I never knew adding a phone to an account and upgrading a phone, which was being taken care of by two of the reps could take so long.

 

[Cobra2001]

There are lots of questions regarding the corporate/student discount in this thread as well... https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/508893/

We probably just need one thread to keep track of this issue until this is finally straightened out (hopefully before the 11th), so I vote for this thread. Maybe change the title to Student/Corporate discounts

 

[luckygyrl83]

just got off the phone with ATT, no corporate discount on the phone OR the plan

Oh no. Im gonna cry.

 

[brandonzar]

Oh no. Im gonna cry.

Read the rest of the thread, that you make you feel better.

 

[heyp]

depending on your company/school deal with at&t it can apply to any number of things, but most only apply to voice

i just chatted with an at&t rep... they said the same thing... i have a service discount of 22% and it does not apply to data plan and text messaging... so who knows? maybe it varies depending on what kind of discount your company or organization has negotiated... but monthly service discount means voice, data, text to me

 

[abooch1]

how can i find out what my discount is?

 

[thor79]

But the old iPhone was not using at&t traditional plans. Now we're using the exact same plans and rates every other phone uses.

I suppose there's a remote chance they still won't apply....but it makes sense why they didn't the first time (you paid 399 for the phone and then another 200-ish to apple over the length of the 2 year contract), and why they should now (you pay 199 for the phone, but apple gets the 599 upfront from at&t....you pay at&t back over 2 years, but at a higher rate).

The new plans are still only for the iPhone unless they are introducing the new plans along with the iPhone. I checked...AT&T doesn't currently offer any combined voice+data plans for regular phones. Considering today I blocked text messages and asked to have my plan switched to data only with no text I would think they would have offered me the same plan as what I'll be getting on my iPhone 3G. They left my voice plan the same and switched me from a smartphone data+text plan to their MediaNet Unlimited plan which saves me $15 per month. The 450 minute iPhone plan announced today would be perfect for me since I don't need text messages. I'll be keeping the block on text messages for the iPhone too as I don't use them and email is just about as easy. I know it doesn't make much sense to switch now since in less than 2 weeks I'll be switching phones and plans anyway...but I wanted to switch and turn off text messages (in order to do that I had to switch) so I would stop getting spam text messages. Been getting a lot of those lately. Plus I'm all set for next month if anything delays or stops me from getting the iPhone 3G.

Funny...when I talked to the sales rep to get all this done they told me I would have to talk with a store rep about a student discount on the iPhone since that's the only place they are selling them at. So they just didn't have the information I guess and said that to cover up the fact that they had no information.

 

[mntentman]

Discounts are different for all organizations, so just because one person gets a certain discount doesn't mean someone else will. I live chatted with a rep today about my specific situation and this is what she said:

Susannah M: Your monthly service discount will still apply to your rate plan. However, it will not apply to the required 3G iPhone Data Plans.

YMMV.

 

[mntentman]

... that said, even AT&T's premier page is inconsistent. I look under family plans and it calculates my 15% discount based on the minutes and two lines on the plan (so, foer example, for 1400 minutes the discount is based on the two-line rate of $89.99). But when I put the plan in the cart it calculates the discount on $80 -- subtracting out the cost of the second line.

 

[Slayerboym88]

All of this crap is SOOO much more complicated than it needs to be! I say that because I feel like my head's going to explode since an AT&T service rep had just been to my father's work and was saying all this stuff that didn't make any sense to me (of course that was being heard second hand. Now this new pricing information comes out?! Ah. I was hoping to buy this thing while on vacation, but now I'm thinking that that is a bad idea. Hmm. I'm thinking I'll have to have mon pere give Mr. ATT-dude another call to find out if this changes anything. If I can get anything back under his companies discount, than it's worth it! Maybe I should have just bought the iPhone last year and then not had to worry about "upgrade eligibility" ********!

 

[kterzino]

No Discount For Iphone

sorry to tell you, but you will not get any student or corporate discount for the iphone. after fighting with att for 5 months straight [it wasn't appearing as a discount on my bill and they "couldn't figure out why"] i finally talked to someone who knew what the deal was...NO student or corporate discounts. sorry.

 

[UWSpindoctor]

That was true for the original iPhone which had a revenue sharing plan with Apple in place. The 3G iPhone does not have this revenue sharing and is being priced the same as any other smartphone. Therefore, there is a good chance the discounts will apply.

 

[elbirth]

sorry to tell you, but you will not get any student or corporate discount for the iphone. after fighting with att for 5 months straight [it wasn't appearing as a discount on my bill and they "couldn't figure out why"] i finally talked to someone who knew what the deal was...NO student or corporate discounts. sorry.

again, the reason the original iPhone was not eligible is a combination of what UWSpindoctor said, as well as the fact that the original iPhone was using, for lack of a better term, a special pricing scheme that was not standard for other smart phones. Now that it's using a standard smart phone plan, and people have stated that the memo that was leaked a while back specifically said that the iPhone 3G would be eligible for discounts... your past 5 months experience is actually irrelevant to the situation.

 

[Pooshka]

can both school and work discounts be used?