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Free At&t Rollover Minutes (9to5mac.com)
10 points by smcguinness on Feb 11, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



If only I actually needed rollover minutes. I have 7,200 rollover minutes I'll never use.

I wish they'd give out free MB/GB of data. That I could use. (Though right now I'm still on the grandfathered "unlimited" plan, so I guess that's useless too.)

Heck, just drop my voice plan and let me buy data only. I'll cope.


Didn't get the message but the number does match previous notifications from AT&T.

Gave it a try... will update if I get a response.

[edit] Correction, it's actually not quite the same as the number for previous notifications. Previous was 11113000 so my phone 'corrected' the new number (11113020) to the previous one without me noticing.

However, yes it seemed to work with the 11113020 #.


I find these little gifts from At&t kind of insulting. After years of doing nothing at all because they had iPhone exclusivity now they're trying to convince people to stay? Perhaps if they had done things like this all along it would be worth staying with the company.


Nice.

AT&T though is smart. They realize they won't have to honor any of these free minutes because iPhones can't make a call on their service.

(But I gave it a shot anyways - what the hell I figure).


I admire your cynicism. I was cynical as well, but went the other direction and assumed that this was AT&T trying to bilk $0.20 out of millions of people without text messaging plans.


It worked for me even without an iPhone. Though I wonder if this credit will actually go through.


AT&T has also been giving free mini-cells -- I have one. It's a little bigger than a typical wifi hub, and it connects to your local network and makes up for reception dead spots in your house.

I wish they'd spend the money upgrading and building out their cell network, though. And I wish they'd done it about four years ago.


Do you think you fit some sort of customer profile that triggered such beneficence? To me minicells look awesome -- but also sort of prohibitively expensive.




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