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Apple, AT&T announce iPhone service plans
By Edward C. Baig, USA TODAYWed Jun 27, 8:47 AM ET
NEW YORK - Apple and AT&T on Tuesday announced cellphone service plans for the iPhone starting at $59.99.
Typically, you activate a cellphone in the store when you buy it. Whether you're an existing AT&T customer or a newbie, Apple wants you to activate iPhone and pick your wireless plan at home through iTunes, without having to wait on line.
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Telecom analyst John Hodulik at UBS called the self-activation plan "an industry first."
The iPhone goes on sale at 6 p.m. Friday across the country at $499 for a 4-gigabyte version and $599 for 8GB of storage.
Across all the plans, which are aggressively priced, you get unlimited data for e-mail and the Web, plus visual voicemail. So what you're choosing are voice and SMS text messaging minutes. Monthly plans start at $59.99 for 450 voice minutes, 200 SMS text messages and 5,000 night and weekend minutes. An additional $10 a month buys 1,500 extra text messages; $20 buys unlimited texts.
There's a onetime $36 activation fee, and you must sign up for a two-year service agreement with AT&T.
Family plans, ranging from $80 to $310 a month, are also available. They include one phone line; additional iPhone lines are $29.99 each.
Current AT&T customers can keep their current voice plan and add an iPhone data plan for $20 per month.
A series of straightforward setup screens in iTunes walks you through the activation drill.
If you're an AT&T customer, you can replace a handset on your account with iPhone or add a new line to an existing account. You can also transfer an existing mobile phone number from another wireless provider.
The process only takes a few minutes, after which you can sync the device with your music, videos, photos, TV shows, calenders, movies, email accounts and Web browser bookmarks.
