AT&T GoPhone

Network: AT&T (limited roaming)

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Website: www.gophone.com
Customer Service: 1-800-901-9878

Overvew: AT&T Go Phone is one of the most popular brands in the prepaid wireless market today. Formerly Cingular Go Phone, their prepaid offering continues to be a market leader and fast growing part of the nation’s largest and most reliable GSM network today.

AT&T GoPhone offers two different type plans, Pick Your Plan and Pay-As-You-Go. The highly popular “rollover minutes” and mobile to mobile are included in both plans with the exception of the $29.99 monthly plan and the simple rate plan of $.25 per minute. With mobile to mobile you can call any of the 10 million AT&T customers at anytime without ever using you’re anytime minutes. (See plans below).

The AT&T text message and data plans are also available separately starting at $4.99 to $19.99 per month, as well as optional features such as ringtones and the latest mobile entertainment services. These are great value packages especially for those customers that like to text instead of talk. (See feature plans below).

AT&T always has special handset offers for the GoPhone program, especially online at their website. Some handsets even include a $15 bonus airtime credit. There is a wide selection of both new and refurbished handsets available online starting as low as $9.99 with no contract, no credit check or deposits required.

Pros: Broad selection of phones, data access (allows use of most phone features on prepaid service), expansive network with 3G in many areas, unlimited plan for less per month than postpaid

Cons: High per-minute rates, expensive pay-as-you-go messaging and international calling, 3G network overcrowding in population centers

Good for: People who want the latest phones (or their choice of phones) and have lots of friends on AT&T to make use of mobile-to-mobile minutes (not a hard thing…AT&T’s network is nearly 80 million strong)

PLAN SELECTION (daily fees only charged when a call is placed or received)
Simple Rate Plan – 25¢ per minute
Mobile to Mobile Plan – $1 per day, 10¢ per minute, free mobile-to-mobile
- Unlimited Nights & Weekends available for $19.99 per month
Unlimited Calling Plan – $3 per day, no charge per minute
Mexico Roaming – 99¢ per minute, daily charge does not apply

Text Messaging – 20¢ per message, 25¢ outgoing internationally, 50¢ outgoing in Mexico
MMS (picture and video messaging) – 25¢ per message
Message Packs  – $4.99 per month for 200 (2.5¢ per message), $9.99 per month for 1000 (1¢ per message), $19.99 per month for unlimited

Data Access – 1¢ per KB, 1.95¢ per KB in Mexico
US Data Packs – $4.99 per month for 1MB, $19.99 per month for 100MB

Airtime Expiration – 30 days for $15 refills, 90 days for $25 and $50 refills, 365 days for $100 refills

Rewards Program – $5 bonus after $100 in refills, $10 bonus for every $100 in refills thereafter

PHONE SELECTION
Nokia 2610 (bar phone) – $29.99 (new), $9.99 (refurbished)
Samsung a137 (flip phone) – $39.99
LG CU405 (3G Bluetooth refurbished quad-band flip world phone) – $44.99
LG CE110 (video-enabled refurbished camera flip phone with Bluetooth) – $29.99
Nokia 2600 (Bluetooth bar phone) – $49.99 (new) $29.99 (refurbished)
Samsung a167 (camera flip phone) – $69.99
Samsung a237 (Bluetooth camera flip world phone) – $79.99 (new), $49.99 (refurbished)
LG CP150 (flip world phone) – $49.99
Sony Ericsson z310a (camera Bluetooth 3G world refurbished flip phone) – $39.99
Sony Ericsson w350 (refurbished world music phone with Stereo Bluetooth, Memory Stick Micro expansion and 1.3 megapixel camera) – $54.99
Samsung a177 (messaging camera world phone with full QWERTY keyboard and Bluetooth) – $99.99
Nokia 6085 (video-enabled camera music world phone with Stereo Bluetooth and MicroSD expansion) – $99.99 (with music pack)
Motorola Razr v3 (camera flip world phone with Bluetooth) – $119.99

Most phones include web browsing, speakerphone and instant messaging; all phones include text messaging capability
Other GSM cell phones can be used if they are unlocked or Cingular/AT&T-branded (no old AT&T Wireless phones); 1900MHz capability required, 850MHz recommended

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