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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1. Purchase phones from Walmart and activate
2. Wait for bonus data to show on each line
3. Port AT&T postpaid lines to T-Mobile prepaid temporarily
4. Call in to AT&T prepaid customer service to port numbers from T-Mobile
5. Wait for bonus data to show once again on each line
6. Merge the lines into a multi-line account
Is this a good plan of action? Thank you.
1. Purchase phones from Walmart and activate
2. Wait for bonus data to show on each line
3. Port AT&T postpaid lines to T-Mobile prepaid temporarily
4. Call in to AT&T prepaid customer service to port numbers from T-Mobile
5. Wait for bonus data to show once again on each line
6. Merge the lines into a multi-line account
Is this a good plan of action? Thank you.
and one thing I noticed is that one of the lines i have with just 8GB...it rolls over the next month too!
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and one thing I noticed is that one of the lines i have with just 8GB...it rolls over the next month too!
That's why I wanted to make sure I was doing the process correctly for this promo because 16GB doesn't work for the remainder of users on my family postpaid account.
That's why I wanted to make sure I was doing the process correctly for this promo because 16GB doesn't work for the remainder of users on my family postpaid account.
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If you are already on an AT&T reseller like Red Pocket, please be advised that they are unable to do a number change on your account.
I have 2 lines on Red Pocket.
For me, they deactivated my newly assigned phone numbers and sims that I had activated on the AT&T prepaid website after purchasing 2 phones from Walmart yesterday.
At that point, they then created 2 new accounts, but now the issue is that the sims from Walmart have been deactivated.
They are trying to reactivate those sims, but now I'm not sure I'll be able to get my 25GB promo.
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