Check out a complete listing of AT&T Phones, or visit the AT&T Wireless Homepage!
Quick Facts:
- Exclusive iPhone Retailer
- Both Prepaid and Contract Phones
- Currently the Largest Cell Provider
Why You’ll Love Them: Two words: Apple exclusivity. That’s right. The one major wow factor for this brand is the fact that they—and only they—will have exclusive rights to the iPhone in its various generations. Which means, for better or worse, they’ll always be on the map. They also have exclusive deals on a few other phones, but none as juicy as the iPhone. They also feature Rollover Minutes, a program in which minutes at the end of the month accumulate and add on to next month as opposed to disappearing. For those who don’t like commitment, ATT’s GoPhone is actually one of the better programs in the biz for prepay cell phones. They have decent rates on not just calls, but data and messaging too, all without a credit check or contract. Considering that their cornerstone is the iPhone, they also have great data bundles and the technology to support it, using EDGE software that creates larger and faster “hotspots” throughout major metropolitan areas. They also have an advantage program that offers discounts on phones the longer you stay with the company—the rub on that? It’s a tiered system based on how much you pay for your plan to start with.
Why You Won’t: ATT really tries to get every last cent out of you. They have a reputation for adding “free trials” onto services and then charging for them later; many customers complain of surprise bills. However, their customer service seems very good about responding to and resolving claims—so apparently a happy customer is one who complains. They also charge extra for unlimited intranetwork mobile-to-mobile calling, and have wildly expensive international charges, starting at $1.29 for a basic call to a plethora of countries, but reaching as high as $4.99 per minute to other countries. Granted, if you enroll in a program and pay a monthly fee, this goes down slightly ($1.29 gets knocked down to $.99) but it is still a very expensive program. Their cellular coverage is also very spotty in the western half of the country—so much for more bars in more places.
Check out a complete listing of AT&T Phones, or visit the AT&T Wireless Homepage!
AT&T service success compared to the other companies that I have used. There is one thing that they do have going for them and the only reason that I am with them – the iPhone. The iPhone is the best thing ever, but AT&T service is lacking in a lot of areas. Using their service I have never had as many dropped calls or places were I can not make calls. I am not talking about places out in no mans land I am talking driving down the freeway in downtown Phoenix, places you would expect it to be working. Another thing about their service is every time that I do drop a call I have to power my phone off and then back on to get it to accept or make calls again. As for cost with their family shared plans and unlimited data their cost is reasonable and better than some of the others.
At this point, until the iPhone is able to go to other carriers, AT&T has the best phone hands down, but Verizon in my opinion has had the best service by far.
I was recently forced to switch from Verizon to AT&T due to my family moving out into the country. The only tower between the city and us is AT&T, in fact, you can actually see it from our living room window. Bad news, we still don’t get service here, trees too tall. Good news, I pay less than $50 a month for my plan and if I ever want to add my husband, it’s only $9.99 a month more. With Verizon and when I was with Nextel, our bill was always $140 for two phones. Nice to know that AT&T is cheaper. Now I just need to have these trees cut down and I will be in business!
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i want to know about call rates:
1. local call charges
2. long distance call charges
3. international call charges specially for USA TO INDIA
and tell me is there any plan for student if yes then send me rates and call charges of that
and do u charge for incoming also or not and if yes then howm much per minutes