First iphone bill?

[SiLeNtKiLLa]

Shyt you guys are lucky, Mine is $260.... called too see why, they say all these prorated charges from the month of June plust July? How come no one else has these charges?

[camtheram]

Mine is $266... They bill first and last month at the same time.

[juliet925]

Originally Posted by camtheram

Mine is $266... They bill first and last month at the same time.

Mine is 266 and I've only had it for 2 weeks; I have the family plan! DO you know why it is so expensive

[MikeT77]

When you get your bills, look at the details of it. If you are new to AT&T, you typically pay 2 months on the first bill plus activation and any other fees. If you were an existing subscriber, and only added the iPhone on to an existing plan, you pay for the prorated cost for the Iphone plan you chose for your current billing period plus the iPhone plan amount ($20, $30 or $40) for the following billing period. For example:

My bill before getting an iPhone was a family plan for my fiancee and I. It was typically $80 ($70 family plan plus taxes - we get a $10 credit because my company is an AT&T partner - ignore text/internet use charges). When I got the iPhone, I had it on the last day in my billing cycle (7/28). My next bill was for the service for 7/29-8/28, iPhone data prorated for 1 day (7/28) and iPhone data for 7/29-8/28. The bill was for $115.04. Here's some simple math:

$115.04 - $20 (iPhone data) = $95.04
$95.04 - $15.11 (text/internet usage for 6/29-7/28, before iPhone) = $79.93
$79.93 (less any negligible taxes related to $20 iPhone data plan) is the amount that I would have expected to pay normally

When you get your bill, sit down with a piece of paper, look at it and do this:
Take the total of the bill you received, and deduct things one piece at a time, itemizing it with a description of what it is. Then you'll see what you are paying for and it won't be a mystery. You will also find any mistakes that MAY have been made. When you get the next month bill, do the same. After that, the bills should be for around the same amount (for iPhone only - if there are other phones on your plan, they may have usage charges that depend on the # of text or internet usage). I can reasonably expect my next bill to be around $100 - it's the $80 I was paying before plus the $20 for the iPhone data plan.