Online Credit Check and Account Setup Reduce Wait Time in Stores Ahead of
Holiday Shopping Season
DALLAS, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) today
announced that its iPhone 3G customers can set up accounts online before
heading to the nearest store to activate and complete the purchase,
reducing in-store wait times as the busy holiday shopping season
approaches.
New customers can perform a pre-qualifying credit check and determine
eligibility to port an existing phone number to AT&T in advance by visiting
http://www.att.com/iphone. Existing AT&T customers can also determine
eligibility to add a new line for iPhone.
The new AT&T online service joins Apple's existing offering to give
customers the fastest way to get up and running with their new iPhone 3G by
starting the setup process online and finishing in the store. For more
information, please visit http://www.apple.com/iphone/buy.
iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone plus 3G
networking that is twice as fast(1) on the nation's fastest 3G network,
built- in GPS for expanded location-based mobile services and iPhone 2.0
software, which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs
thousands of third-party applications that are available through the Apple
App Store.
For the complete array of AT&T offerings, visit http://www.att.com.
(1) Based on 3G and EDGE testing. Actual speeds vary by site conditions.
About AT&T
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subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of
AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their
offerings are the world's most advanced IP-based business communications
services and the nation's leading wireless, high speed Internet access and
voice services. In domestic markets, AT&T is known for the directory
publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and
YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators
in such fields as communications equipment. As part of its three-screen
integration strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings. In
2008, AT&T again ranked No. 1 on Fortune magazine's World's Most Admired
Telecommunications Company list and No. 1 on America's Most Admired
Telecommunications Company list. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and
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