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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from ThriftyLake7039
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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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
At least I didn't think "oh let me enter a zip code that my area code covers because if I enter the zip I currently live in, it may cause issues"
Just had to vent, ha!
What I've been told by one of the AT&T store reps and CS is that with prepaid, they can't do a port after activation without canceling the line and creating a new one (which is why they want you to wait till the end of the billing cycle, so you don't lose a bunch of days you already paid for). I also asked the AT&T store rep if I did the number swap at the end of the cycle if I would still get the 8+17 bonus, and he said he could add the 8+8 bonus back on, but wasn't sure about the 8+17 bonus, and to talk to CS to see what they can do.
When I called the port activation number, I think they did cancel my service and started a new one with my ported number because my 17GB of bonus data disappeared and my billing cycle moved back 4 days. They just gave me 4 free days instead of making me pay for another month of service. I'm still waiting for my bonus data to show up again.
What I've been told by one of the AT&T store reps and CS is that with prepaid, they can't do a port after activation without canceling the line and creating a new one (which is why they want you to wait till the end of the billing cycle, so you don't lose a bunch of days you already paid for). I also asked the AT&T store rep if I did the number swap at the end of the cycle if I would still get the 8+17 bonus, and he said he could add the 8+8 bonus back on, but wasn't sure about the 8+17 bonus, and to talk to CS to see what they can do.
When I called the port activation number, I think they did cancel my service and started a new one with my ported number because my 17GB of bonus data disappeared and my billing cycle moved back 4 days. They just gave me 4 free days instead of making me pay for another month of service. I'm still waiting for my bonus data to show up again.
no option to port for me when i activated via online portal
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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?
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