Moving from iPhone "post paid" to prepaid with AT&T

[mik33]

Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone has had experience taking an existing, active iPhone account with AT&T from a regular "post paid" account to a prepaid one after their contract expires.

There are ways to get an iPhone up and running using prepaid accounts (you can Google it to read more), and even get data going, but everything I've read has to do with taking an unused iPhone and putting a gophone sim in it. I have an iPhone that is out of contract but still in service, and want to take my existing phone number with me and do this.

Anybody?

[hf1khal]

They will not allow it. AT&T has the sytems in place to detect and de-activate the use of iphone in a prepaid plan. Be carefull.

[Irish Rose]

They will not allow it. AT&T has the sytems in place to detect and de-activate the use of iphone in a prepaid plan. Be carefull.

Although AT&T does not support the use of any iPhone other than the 2nd one on their prepaid network. A person can jailbreak their iPhone and it will work fine with a AT&T prepaid sim card. AT&T didn't stop my daughter from using her prepaid sim card in my old 3GS iPhone.


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[spleck]

I don't think you can move your number directly from post-paid to pre-paid. You'll probably need to port it to an intermediate, then back to AT&T prepaid.