FamilyTalk

Eric559 · May 31, 2008

I understand this is not really a hardware question but Mac Forums has never let me down and you guys are the first ones I thought of to answer my question.

This is what I have right now with ATT:

FamilyTalk 550 w/ 2 phones both non-iPhone
Unlimited messaging for families

With the new iPhone coming out soon I want to purchase it. Does anyone here have a plan similar to what I want to get:

FamilyTalk 550 w 2 phones. 1 iPhone, 1 non iPhone
Unlimited messaging for families
Plus that $20 iPhone data plan

I have heard conflicting things that the unlimited messaging carries over to the iphone as well. Some say it does and some say that the unlimited messaging is only for non-iphone.

Noels · May 31, 2008

Eric,

Why don't you give AT&T a call and ask their telephone rep? They like to add services

They may be able to fix you up directly if it can be done.

Noel

Eric559 · May 31, 2008

Noels said:
Eric,

Why don't you give AT&T a call and ask their telephone rep? They like to add services They may be able to fix you up directly if it can be done.

Noel

Just want to see what some people here first had to say.

Noels · May 31, 2008

That's fair and they'll come up with good answers, too, I'll bet!

Eric559 · May 31, 2008

It's frustrating. I should of never added my girlfriend on my wireless plan! ;D

ATT says no you can't do that but then there's posts like this on the ATT Forums that say otherwise:

http://forums.cingular.com/cng/board/message?board.id=apple&thread.id=19022

sanity1082 · May 31, 2008

that is exactly what i have. two phones (700 min a month i believe) unlimited family text, and picture messaging, and $20 a month iphone plan. what i did was i set up the family talk line with my old phone and then added the iphone plan on to it. i do get the unlimited messaging.

Eric559 · May 31, 2008

sanity1082 said:
what i did was i set up the family talk line with my old phone and then added the iphone plan on to it. i do get the unlimited messaging.

Can you explain that part a little better? I think I understood but I just want to make sure.

sanity1082 · May 31, 2008

i used my old phone (non iphone) when i set up the family talk plan. when i was setting up the plan at at&t i ask them to add the family unlimited text and picture messaging to the plan. i then came home and used itunes to register my iphone. the rest is all history.

i did talk to at&t people before i set up my iphone to make sure i got unlimited messaging. they all told me that the unlimited texting on a family plan trumped the 200 messages on the iphone plan.

hopefully that clears up any questions

Eric559 · May 31, 2008

sanity1082 said:
i used my old phone (non iphone) when i set up the family talk plan. when i was setting up the plan at at&t i ask them to add the family unlimited text and picture messaging to the plan. i then came home and used itunes to register my iphone. the rest is all history.

i did talk to at&t people before i set up my iphone to make sure i got unlimited messaging. they all told me that the unlimited texting on a family plan trumped the 200 messages on the iphone plan.

hopefully that clears up any questions

Thanks a lot for your help. That's my current situation right now. All I gotta do is buy the iPhone to replace my current (non iphone) phone with it. Thanks again.