Are you on a pay-as-you-go date plan with your iPhone? You won’t be pretty soon as AT&T announced that the new iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade will end pay-as-you-go date service very soon. AT&T calls it a “technical change.†iPhone prepaid users got the following text message from AT&T:
AT&T Free MSG: A new software upgrade for iPhone will be available on 6/17. This upgrade may affect your data service. Please visit att.com/iphone or call 800-901-9878 for a representative. If you download the software and are not on an approved iPhone data plan, your data service will be interrupted.
We are calling bullshit on the technical change reason, this is just a way for AT&T to make more coin and get users to switch over to a full data plan. AT&T is going so far as to say that the pay-as-you-go plans were really even approved for the iPhone, so why did AT&T and offer it previously? Aren’t they the sole carrier of the iPhone? Way to go AT&T.
• If you are a Pick Your Plan Customer with the required unlimited Data Plan for iPhone, you should not experience any interruption in your data service due to downloading the iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update which will be available on June 17.
• If you are a Pick Your Plan Customer who does not currently have the required unlimited Data Plan for iPhone, you will experience an interruption in your data service. To avoid this interruption, you should call 866-499-7888 to have the required Data Plan for iPhone added to your service.
• Pay As You Go rate plans are not approved for AT&T iPhone customers. Customers currently using an iPhone with a Pay As You Go rate plan should call 800-901-9878 so they can move to an approved rate plan with the required unlimited Data Plan for iPhone.
-Ray
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