AT&T says SIM-only service available contract free, 2-year plan was a mistake

Apparently, the news we got (and saw on the company's website) yesterday concerning AT&T's offer of a SIM-only service plan was off the mark... or so says AT&T. According to the telco's reps, a SIM card can be had sans-contract, saying that its attitude towards the service hasn't changed and that pre-paid, post-paid, or any other millions of varieties of arrangements can be made to tap into its sweet service. So move along folks, nothing here to see.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 2nd 2008 4:01AM]

I cannot find anywhere a mention of this on AT&T's web site. Does anyone have a specific URL I can go to for this?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 7th 2008 7:51PM]

I called AT&T and you can only do this at a store, it is not available online or by phone. Hope they finally got the word out to the store reps! I'm going to try tomorrow.

[goula Posted Jan 22nd 2008 2:50PM]

thank you at&t. i'll forgive the 5GB limit, the 'rumor' that pay per use text message charges are going up to 20 cent, the bloatware you put on all handsets sold by you and the utter lack of open java access on those same handsets. Ol' Stan must have came by and paid you guys a visit and laid the smack down...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 22nd 2008 4:17PM]

have they passed the news to their sales reps cause i just tried to activate my new nokia and some chick told me that i had to sign a contract if i wanted a postpaid account with them

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 22nd 2008 4:48PM]

If you dont sign a contract then you dont get the m2m feature. its a promotional feature with a contract of some sort. read the fine print in one of their flyers

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 22nd 2008 5:31PM]

wow i can dig the no contract, sim only thing....hmm....

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 22nd 2008 8:15PM]

nope they haven't said anything about this to us. i work in a corporate store, and they we just got training today on the new rate plans. i rely on engadget to find out everything.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 22nd 2008 8:54PM]

Can anyone tell me if you can do this online? or just in store?

I haven't found the option online.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 22nd 2008 10:45PM]

You can online but at the moment they are sold out

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 22nd 2008 10:55PM]

You can do this at a store. The no contract option was added to the activation process last week. Reps may not want to do this because they don't get paid on anything but a 2 yr contract activation.

As far as M2M, all plans (contract or no contract) are now eligible for the m2m feature. It's not considered promotional anymore.

Pay per use is going up effective March 1st. Text= .20, Picture= .30

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 23rd 2008 9:35AM]

Is this only a GoPhone thing? I only find it there?

I want regular monthly plans/services with no contract