AT&T offers customers 1,000 free rollover minutes

By on Sep 1, 2011 at 9:00 PM
mobile September 1, 2011

AT&T sent text messages to its customers on Thursday offering 1,000 free rollover minutes. The message specifically said: “There’s no cost or obligation to you. It’s our way of saying thank you. To have your minutes added, reply “YES,” by 9/7/2011.” We received the SMS on an iPhone in the office and confirmed that we did indeed receive 1,000 free rollover minutes. An AT&T spokesperson did not immediately responded to a request for further details on why AT&T issued the offer.

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  • Petrick

    is that only for iphone users? cuz i didnt get any mess.

  • U.N. Owen

    What an utterly sweet , thoughtful thing for AT&T to do!

    A ONE time ‘gift.’

    Mmmmmm….. I’ll stick with my carrier (no name’s here. They WORK!)

  • http://twitter.com/onicholas72 oneil nicholas

    They are giving away free rollover minute because they want people to forget about how they are trying to force everyone into an unlimited text plan…because in the fall the iPhone will have imessage  and google and everyone else is working on there own version of that..AT&T is a very greedy company.. they don’t give away any thing free there is alway a reason for the madness 

  • Sonia

    they done it before.  what’s the big deal?

  • Anonymous

    I didnt get the text, but I have almost 6,000 RMs as it is, and I live in NYC where I basically cant use voice minutes anyway due to AT&Ts horrendous 3G network (voice wont work in either of my 2 offices and is a “crapshoot” at best in my apt.).  If I use 20 minutes voice per month, that’s a big month.

    • Anonymous

      ha, just looked at my usage this month:  6 minutes voice, 0.48mb data

      • The Thrasher

        Your quite the spender there Big Doug.

      • Anonymous

        Lol true, but there is about 600mb per month WiFi / google voice usage.  I don’t use many AT&T cell minutes / data because their network barely works in NYC (esp if you are inside any sort of building whatsoever) so I am about 99% WiFi reliant (or I use my VZW work phone which of course works everywhere in NYC and never drops calls). I actually cannot recall the last AT&T voice call in NYC that didnt drop (thus I’ve learnt to keep AT&T voice calls < 30 secs max).

  • fredd0

    if you need rollover minutes, you are probably on the wrong plan, if you have rollover minutes, you are probably on the wrong plan.. especially with mobile to any mobile…

  • http://twitter.com/RodSimmons Rod Simmons

    Same thing happened to my friend about 8 months ago

  • http://twitter.com/joe_dorn Joe Dorn

    I didn’t receive this… not yet anyway…

  • CMC

    I’m sure there’s a catch.  That company does nothing without strings attached.

  • Lothar Brieger

    I’m an AT&T customer and I never received this SMS.

  • The Heavy

    It is clear for to see that ATT is doing this because of American government investigating it.  They want to buy puny little T Mobil company and make it part of their company.  ATT is also concerned for rumor that Sprint will soon get iPhone and has decide to change business practice so as to not appear like bad carrier.

  • Anonymous

    I never received my Text message. it’s probably only for Iphone users only. cause I have my Atrix.

  • http://twitter.com/drumboy_ Aaron H

    The real story here…. was it a “free text message” ?

  • Alessandro Zuniga

    I’ve got 2k rollover minutes already. How bout decreasing price of text plans? Nah, they don’t really wanna keep customers.

  • http://profiles.google.com/frank.malloy Frank Malloy

    Nobody cares about minutes anymore. If you want to please your customers and turn attention away from your awful coverage and service, address what we DO care about – your removal of the texting plan tiers, and your ridiculous data caps.

    If you want to make me happy, give me free texts, and unlimited data, not stupid minutes.

  • Michale11111

    I never got the message so I text YES to the number shown in your  photo and got back a message they would credit my account with the minutes.

  • Anonymous

    I called AT&T on this and was told it was a scam. If anyone out there has actually seen those 1000 minutes appear in their account, I definitely want to hear. And if you’ve received the text message, I’d really recommend calling customer service before you reply.

    • Guest

      I called as well and they said that an extra 1000 roll over minutes will be showing up in my account within 72 hours.

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