AT&T Family Plan for iPhone and non-iPhone

My DH had an individual account with AT&T, which we converted to a Family Plan to add the iPhone (mine, all mine... my precious...). We didn't initially switch our kids phone over to AT&T. We came home and did a little cypherin' and placed a call to Verizon. The cheapest plan they had was $40 a month. My kids hardly ever use their phone (a rarity I know) so that seemed kinda steep. After doing the math it turns out that it was cheaper to pay the penalty, buy them a Razor and put them on AT&T for $10 a month.

I was a Sprint customer until iDay. I purchased an iPhone and two Samsung Syncs. I chose the family phone plan 2100 minutes was 120.00. My wife's phone was included and our son's phone was 9.99. Total 129.99 for voice.

I had a family plan prior to the iPhone. I just switched the one phone to the iPhone and added a $20 fee for the data plan...

Don't sign up under the iPhone plan unless you have more than one iPhone...

i was told i had to sign up under the iphone plan. i only have 1 iphone... are you actually telling me that you did not have to use the iphone plan???

THe family plan has DOUBLE the minutes. Or nearly double. I think the single plan is 350-400 minutes and the family plan starts at 700minutes. If you compare oranges to oranges, and compare a single plan for 700 minutes and a family plan for 700minutes, it is only $10 for the second phone on the family plan with no iphone. For my family of 4 phones, I changed over to an iphone, and it truly was only $20 more for the iphone per month. Now I have 2 teens and we use the 700minutes, so for us, 3 more phones at 9.99 a piece is a steal.

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I was able to just add the 20 dollar data package. So it ends up being like 15.00 cheaper than 2 seperate plans. I did not do the 109.00 package just the upgrade.

I have an iPhone and my wife has a Razr.

We have the Family Talk Nation 1400 minutes plan for $89.99 a month plus $20 a month for the iPhone data plan. We could have gone cheaper with the 700 minutes plan for $69.99 or the 550 minutes plan for $59.99.

So, the cheapest family plan for 1 iphone, 1 non-iphone, is $79.99 (includes data for iPhone).

That is still not too bad.

BTW, I was told by AT&T to do this when activating my iPhone but wanting a family plan.

1) Activate the iPhone via iTunes, pick a single user plan.
2) Once iPhone is operational, call AT&T sales, and change your plan to a family talk plan, order a non-iphone phone and add $20 iphone data plan.

This is what I did and all is good. You basically can't do it online if you have the iPhone already in hand.

If you go to the AT&T website, and look up the plans, it states there:

Get iPhone for every member in the family. Plans start at $109.99 for two iPhone lines and include Visual Voicemail and Unlimited Data—email and web—and 200 SMS text messages (you can add more text messages for a little more a month). Additional iPhone lines (up to 3 more) are $29.99 each. Additional non-iPhone lines are $9.99 each.

So it looks like the Family Plan should cover 2 iPhones. If you only got one, and are looking at staying with only one iPhone, stay wtih your current family plan and add a data plan.


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Yeah I was already an At&T customer. So it was just an upgrade for me.

BTW - it works just fine to go into AT&T, switch (and get a cheap phone), and then buy the iPhone right away and port the number over to that. It's what I did, and I got a plan that's better for me that way.

I recommend visiting an AT&T store until you're happy with your plan, then using iTunes to swap the one line to iPhone which will add another $20 to your plan, and then you're good to go.

Good luck!
Aym