AT&T Wireless ATT/iPhone subsidies

@powerdog: Hi Powerdog. I likewise am an AT&T customer. To tell you the truth, I think your best answer would be to call 611 from your mobile. However, I would venture to say that the end of their "offering" 2 year contracts does not imply they are letting everyone out of them. Example: When a restaurant puts up their "Closed" sign, they don't kick out everybody that is still eating. They merely lock the doors to prevent others from entering and then unlock the doors as customers leave. (Or, they have a door mechanism that allows departures but not entrants.)

The "Next" program with AT&T is an interesting one. Even before the phone is paid off (via monthly installments), after you've paid about 3/4ths of the payments, they allow you to turn in the phone and get a new one and start a new payment period. For me, I'd just as well buy it outright even though that really doesn't have any benefits.

 

It will be interesting to hear what 611 tells you.

I think they had to lower their voice, text and data rates so low to stay competitive, I doubt they can subsidize the cost of an iPhone now. I pay $90 a month (before tax) for two phones with unlimited voice and text and 6GB of shared data (it was 3GB of shared data before they gave me the free boost to 6GB)

 

....but you'll still have to buy a full priced phone, correct?