6:35 pm (EDT) - Place it on the dock, launch iTunes, choose the replace a phone on my account with this iPhone. Wait while AT&T verifies the information I gave (phone number, billing zip and last 4 digits of SSN)
6:36 pm (EDT) - Surprise #1 : Wireless service for your iPhone is not eligible for any service discount available through your employers agreement with AT&T. You can activate your iPhone on your current IRU account, but any available service discount will be removed. I actually don’t think this is a big deal - the primary discount we get is that the data package for my Treo is only 39.99 a month, according to AT&T’s iPhone FAQ the iPhone data package is 20 dollars extra a month - in other words another 20 dollar saving. I’m very pleasantly surprised that they worked this out ! I had expected this to be a major sticking point.
6:37 pm (EDT) - Click through the ‘discount notice’, choose the standard SMS options, and give my Apple ID, agree to the license agreements and ‘activate’ - now I have the ‘processing activation’ dialog. This is where it could really not work !
6:42 pm (EDT) - Congratulations AT&T is activating your iPhone. Let’s hope they’ve really sorted out all the problems ! It’s pretty much down to them now !
6:44 pm (EDT) - Wow ! They really have sorted everything out ! My iPhone is activated !
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This post was written by awk on July 2, 2007
