The definative iPhone activation and eligibility thread.

[twindc23]

great informative post. Thanks!


looks like im gonna camp out an apple store a night before release. I hope i dont have to go any sooner than that.

HEHE... PS3 launch. that was fun =)

[everythingiphone123]

attingular, i just called customer service today and they told me i am eligible for a two year service upgrade or w/e...does this mean that i am alright?

[ATTingular]

Again, I'm not 100% on how upgrades will be handled, but if you're already eligible for a standard upgrade then you're golden no matter what.

[everythingiphone123]

ok sweet thanks

[timschizzle]

Originally Posted by ATTingular

Again, I'm not 100% on how upgrades will be handled, but if you're already eligible for a standard upgrade then you're golden no matter what.

I just called 611 from my phone and conned the lady into answering almost all of my questions.

I just upgraded in march because i busted my girlfriends phone so i used my upgrade to get her a new phone. The AT&T rep said that i was not eligible for an upgrade until 10/18/2008!!!!

I told her my story about my g/f's phone and told here that i was looking to get a new phone on the 29th.... never mentioning iPhone... she said that i could get a new phone by purchasing it outright with no discounts.

I then told her that I was planning on getting an iPhone, and I asked if i will beable to get one even though I can't upgrade, she said yes, I would just have to purchase the phone outright, and then I could get it set up for my existing number. I asked how much it would be upright and she told me $499 for the 4GB and $599 for the 8GB.

Afther that I threw her a curve ball. I told her that my dad had a question... He is available for an upgrade and was looking into an iPhone and wanted to know how much it would since he can upgrade. She said she wasn't sure but to hold on for one second while she found the paper that told her info about the iPhone.

She then read out part of the paper she had to me stating that the only prices or any numbers related to cost in the information they had was $499 and $599 and that those were the prices everyone would pay as of now. She said there was nothing about upgrade discounts, but that she was going to be getting more info about that in the coming week.



Here is what it boils down to:

Everyone can get the phone, upgrade or not. if you aren't available to upgrade you will pay the prices we have all heard. Thoes are the "outright prices before contract"

What they don't know yet is if there will be discounts for people who can upgrade.

[WTEngel]

I called AT&T Customer service and got an identical story. Bottom line, anyone who purchases an iPhone is purchasing it outright, whether you are eligible for upgrade or not. New customer, old customer, heck, if you want to go to the Apple store and purchase one without a plan or anything, unactivated, it sounds like you can. You wont be able to power it on or use it for anything other than a paperweight because it isn't active with a valid SIM chip, but hey, it's a damn good looking paper weight right?

$499.00 - 4gb
$599.00 - 8gb

Plain and simple. No upgrades, subsidies, blah blah blah...at least that seems to be the story AT&T is sticking to.

[mav]

Thanks for posting this.

As I mentioned in my other thread, I already found out that I'm not eligible. At least this is the stance several of my local AT&T stores are taking. I was hoping to get one under my corporate account, but it looks like that path has been taken away as well.

This sucks.

[everythingiphone123]

Originally Posted by timschizzle

I just called 611 from my phone and conned the lady into answering almost all of my questions.

I just upgraded in march because i busted my girlfriends phone so i used my upgrade to get her a new phone. The AT&T rep said that i was not eligible for an upgrade until 10/18/2008!!!!

I told her my story about my g/f's phone and told here that i was looking to get a new phone on the 29th.... never mentioning iPhone... she said that i could get a new phone by purchasing it outright with no discounts.

I then told her that I was planning on getting an iPhone, and I asked if i will beable to get one even though I can't upgrade, she said yes, I would just have to purchase the phone outright, and then I could get it set up for my existing number. I asked how much it would be upright and she told me $499 for the 4GB and $599 for the 8GB.

Afther that I threw her a curve ball. I told her that my dad had a question... He is available for an upgrade and was looking into an iPhone and wanted to know how much it would since he can upgrade. She said she wasn't sure but to hold on for one second while she found the paper that told her info about the iPhone.

She then read out part of the paper she had to me stating that the only prices or any numbers related to cost in the information they had was $499 and $599 and that those were the prices everyone would pay as of now. She said there was nothing about upgrade discounts, but that she was going to be getting more info about that in the coming week.



Here is what it boils down to:

Everyone can get the phone, upgrade or not. if you aren't available to upgrade you will pay the prices we have all heard. Thoes are the "outright prices before contract"

What they don't know yet is if there will be discounts for people who can upgrade.

i called 611 also to make sure that i was eligible for an upgrade and she said yes. next i asked her if upgrades got a discount and she said she hasnt got any word on that yet, but im keeping my fingers crossed

[wjp09]

Nice sticky Hopefully this will keep down alot of new threads about questions already answered.

[Youngbinks]

Great and very informative thread. I am also eager to hear if upgrade eligible people get a discount on the iPhone. I am prepared to pay the full $599 but if there is any chance of a discount that would be great.