Deal requires purchase of an AT&T PREPAID phone from either a Walmart store or from walmart.com. It does not have to be a smartphone. The Cingular Flip 2 also works.
If you have no intention of using the Walmart phone and want to swap to a different phone, verify the Walmart phone you buy has the same size SIM card as the phone you want to use (most use nanoSIM cards these days). To be safe, use the Walmart phone until your bonus data appears on your account.
Online activation does not give you an option to port your number. It will only give you a new number based on the zip code you enter during activation. Try calling customer service to activate if you wish to port your number over.
If you activated your phone with a new number and wish to port your old number over to it after the fact, read the warning below:
Warning about porting after activation: YMMV Several users are reporting that they aren't receiving the 17GB of bonus data after porting their number over and only receiving 8GB of bonus from the regular AT&T deal. Many are getting the runaround and being told to wait the entire 10 days to see if the full 17GB shows up. At least one user has so far and still hasn't received it. AT&T has escalated their case and they're waiting to hear back (https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=
Phone numbers:
AT&T customer service: 1-800-901-9878 or 611 on any AT&T mobile phone
AT&T's Port Activation Center: 1-888-898-7685
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Yes of course. That is the whole point. Btw the rep told me that this offer expires at the end of october.
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from knightrider93
This deal is valid until first week of September. Spoke with a ATT rep last night, she said this is a new deal and she will be following my account to see if I get 17 GB bonus or not because I changed the sim, phone and port in my number on the same day (7/3) I bought the prepaid cards. Still waiting for 17 GB bonus data to kick in
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I ordered online and activated through the phone using the app... I called AT&T, apparently they said I'm eligible and that I would need to head down to Walmart to fix it.
Really hoping that it's just a system glitch...
Maybe that's why some people are only seeing 8GB bonus data? AT&T's not able to add the Walmart bonus in, so they're putting them in the 8+8 deal instead.
I ordered online and activated through the phone using the app... I called AT&T, apparently they said I'm eligible and that I would need to head down to Walmart to fix it.
Really hoping that it's just a system glitch...
I called them and they were able to port my number over without any issue, but it looks like my account was reset. The renewal date changed and my data usage reset. The concerning bit is that my bonus data doesn't show up anymore. It showed the 17GB of bonus before the port and now it's not there. We'll see in a couple days what/if my bonus data comes back.
I called them and they were able to port my number over without any issue, but it looks like my account was reset. The renewal date changed and my data usage reset. The concerning bit is that my bonus data doesn't show up anymore. It showed the 17GB of bonus before the port and now it's not there. We'll see in a couple days what/if my bonus data comes back.
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I ordered online and activated through the phone using the app... I called AT&T, apparently they said I'm eligible and that I would need to head down to Walmart to fix it.
Really hoping that it's just a system glitch...
Thanks!
Thanks!
I activated this past Monday around 7pm using the activation portal (https://www.att.com/prepaid/activ...ivate.h
During the activation process I picked the plan and the system asked me for payment info. After activation, I noticed the payment hadn't gone through because I couldn't make any calls. Well I then called 611 from the Walmart phone and paid over the phone and line was fully active then.
So for me, the 17GB took close to 3 days to arrive.
I haven't ported my actual number yet. We will see how that goes..
I called them and they were able to port my number over without any issue, but it looks like my account was reset. The renewal date changed and my data usage reset. The concerning bit is that my bonus data doesn't show up anymore. It showed the 17GB of bonus before the port and now it's not there. We'll see in a couple days what/if my bonus data comes back.
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