Mark Gurman is reporting for 9 to 5 Mac that AT&T is offering customers 1,000 free bonus rollover minutes.
“If you did not receive the text just send the word ‘yes’ to the 11113020 number and you will recieve a text that says your account has been credited,” Gurman reports.
MacDailyNews Note: We tried it on one of our AT&T iPhones and it worked like a charm:
MacDailyNews Take: Now, if we could only hold a phone call on AT&T for over a minute…
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
verizon iphone is getting beat down bad.
Worked! Nice….
what worked? a “reply” saying says “Thank you for accepting…” that *you* initiated by sending an SMS to some cryptic number could EASILY be a hoax! What EVIDENCE do we have that this is legit? anyone?
AT&T confirmed it on their Facebook page… here is a link to the discussion board… scroll down & you will see where AT&T confirms it. Woo hoo! 😀
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/topic.php?uid=8576093908&topic=16768
sweet!
Worked for me as well.
Bogus offer. I looked all over the AT&T web site and found nothing about 1000 free rollover minutes. Seems kind of counter-intuitive anyway. Why give away rollover minutes? Why not just anytime minutes? BEWARE. Could be a gotcha.
If it sounds to good to be true….
Yep, works as advertised! .:.
@ifthnd: Read the article. The AT&T website has nothing to do with it. I also texted “yes” to the number given in the article and immediately got a confirmation from AT&T. Works exactly as stated.
Meh.
Lower the fricking prices, compete for real!
MDN’s iPhone app is being revised for work with their new website. Stay tuned.
Verizon has unlimited data, that’s their competing. And it’s got me.
meh, 1000 more minutes – like that will add anything to my 3500 rollover minutes.
AT$T did the math, figured out they would help some with the minutes…and I am sure there are lots of folks that can use extra minutes…
Personally, I would liked to have seen a reduction in the voice fee schedule – even a symbolic couple $$. Also know that will never happen.
I have not been waiting on pins and needles to change from AT$T. Given their dumb marketing/sales slops over the last month, I am now starting to give some thought to changing to Verizon with iPhone 5.
It works. Yesterday I activated unlimited mobile to mobile. And I never had problems in my area.
Thanks AT&T!
did you try facetiming this person
Mdn’s 2nd take…. I guess I’m way above the norm then, I had a 46 minute call yesterday on my AT&T iPhone.
Mdn needs to really stop the AT&T bashing. Verizois one of the worst cell companies to deal with. And mdn has a history of being “less than stable”
And let’s not talk about the google ads etc that plagues the mdn site, which they bash left and right…
Would be funny to fine out this text costs you $10 to get the free 1000 minutes… Lol.
I never use my rollover minutes anyway, and now with unlimited mobile to mobile… I’ll never go over my monthly.
Totally agree with you. Verizon had been spiteful with Apple and At&t for the longest time.
MDN, why do you have double standards?
scam? who are you texting your cell phone number to?
I used to save up my rollover minutes and when I collected enough of them, I would just lower my monthly plan until I used all the roll over minutes up and then I would raise the minute plan back up again…. It worked great.
I am now using my phone more, so I have the AT&T unlimited plan…
Worked quite nicely. Thanks!
Does anyone know if I can share rollover minutes with my dog?
I have close to 12000 roll over minutes unused … I wish I could gift them to people :/
Nice! I tried it and it worked! This is what we’ve really needed for iPhone, competition from the carriers!
So is this a scam or real?
I wonder if accepting these additional minutes extends my contract for 2 more years
first post for me on MDN
I vote for scam. Sure I got the “Confirmation.” But how the hell do we know who it’s really coming from?
I just hope that my number is furnished to 100 other sites and they all start texting me 8 times a day.
Stupid thought…
Does ANYONE have the screenshot from the original text that came out? We have seen the screen from above after you send the “yes”
I have noticed that AT&T’s text numbers are 10 digits long… Not 8 like the one shown here.
If anyone has the text offering this deal, grab a screenshot of it and post it so we can all see it.
Every site I have seen this story, says the same thing… Just text this number, no backup proof.
I’m leaning towards scam myself.
I had to explain to mom over the phone how to use her text messaging feature on her Pantech Breeze, but she got the 1000 minutes, too! Thanks AT&T!
Doubt we could do anything to mdn, this is all over the place. Every one has the same story, and nobody shows the first text.
Does anyone know what conditions we all just accepted by doing this? I hope not a contract extension…
I called AT&T. The customer service person said the following:
1. There is some 1,000 bonus rollover minute promotion, but it is for current AT&T U-verse TV & Internet service, not for people who only have AT&T Wireless service.
2. The short code 3020 is for downloading a mobile phone game named “Oz.” She couldn’t find anything in her system that said that 11113020 actually belonged to AT&T.
Now, the customer service person might not have really understood what I was asking, but this does seem like this “offer” is a mistake, at best.
I see 9-5 Mac has posted the first AT&T text now.
Guess it is legit, but I still dint need it.
There’s got to be a huge catch to this. Not me, nope uh uh.
Thinking with a positive attitude!
I have an old unlimited family plan. How about giving me free tethering for my iPad or Free 3G for my other iPad 3G!
I am going to love this AT&T / Verizon battle.
9-5 Mac does have the first official AT&T text screenshot now posted.
I bet krioni has the best answer, only certain customers qualify for the 1000 minutes. I don’t have either on my account, I didn’t get the text.
Now I wonder if those that just sent the yes to that number, will they get the 1000 minutes even if they do not have the qualifying Internet/u verse accounts?
I doubt AT&T would have to give those that did not qualify the minutes… Maybe, but I don’t see AT&T having to do so.
I called AT&T and the guy there said he never heard of this special. He must be dumb! So I texted back “YES” and agreed to the terms, which I really don’t know, but who cares, it’s legit someone from nigeria typed at&t!!!
I agreed also and a text said it worked! I called AT&T and there was no minutes, but the text said it could take 4 weeks, so that’s why AT&T didn’t know anything about this. I’m so smart! My family said don’t reply yes to a unknown scam, boy are they dumb. I hope I get texted other great offers!!!
I didit. Why I don’t know. So than I figured Hey if it worked once. I sent yes again! Yup, another 1000 minutes. Pretty sure its a scam.
Does someone have a non-AT&T account to try this from? Wouldn’t that confirm the scam theory? (if it “worked”)
It does not work on t mobile…
I got this offer from ATT a few minutes ago via email. Why? I wonder, too, if it’s a scam. Maybe it doesn’t even need to be. With 12k rollover already, I wonder if they offered the majority of their minutes to folks who don’t need or want them. Everything is PR whether we like it or not.
Text Marketing is the future of B2B marketing.95% of Texts get read.