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.