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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last time i activated a line at the store, they just asked for the imei of the phone that i will be using with and input into their system...so if i was to activate a new line with this walmart plan, i can easily just do the same thing, and give them the sim card included in the phone and ask them to help me activate. it's the system that will recognize the imei and the sim card # belong to walmart store and automatically do the 25GB plan after 10 days.
All kinds of hassle on this deal.
T-Mobile would only allow up to 5GB of full-speed hotspot in Canada and Mexico.
last time i activated a line at the store, they just asked for the imei of the phone that i will be using with and input into their system...so if i was to activate a new line with this walmart plan, i can easily just do the same thing, and give them the sim card included in the phone and ask them to help me activate. it's the system that will recognize the imei and the sim card # belong to walmart store and automatically do the 25GB plan after 10 days.
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last time i activated a line at the store, they just asked for the imei of the phone that i will be using with and input into their system...so if i was to activate a new line with this walmart plan, i can easily just do the same thing, and give them the sim card included in the phone and ask them to help me activate. it's the system that will recognize the imei and the sim card # belong to walmart store and automatically do the 25GB plan after 10 days.
do you know if the zip code you enter in the activation portal is what determines the area code for the number the SIM card is assigned to?
do you know if the zip code you enter in the activation portal is what determines the area code for the number the SIM card is assigned to?
If I buy a new Walmart phone and activate it with an Austin number, do you think AT&T would move the plan purchased during my previous activation (Houston number) to the new one (Austin market number)?
I would hate to have to spend another $75 (Walmart phone and plan)
activated online on 6/12 through promo link, then called porting to port number
no bonus data until yesterday when I get 8GB bonus
I have called support 4 times and 3 of the 4 just say wait the 10 days
I'm at 8 days now and I really doubt the correct promo will show up
Truth is I would probably never use more than 16GB but its the principle
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activated online on 6/12 through promo link, then called porting to port number
no bonus data until yesterday when I get 8GB bonus
I have called support 4 times and 3 of the 4 just say wait the 10 days
I'm at 8 days now and I really doubt the correct promo will show up
Truth is I would probably never use more than 16GB but its the principle
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