{"id":2139,"date":"2017-01-24T12:19:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T12:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2017-01-24T12:19:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T12:19:19","slug":"att-increases-phone-activation-fee-to-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/phone\/att-increases-phone-activation-fee-to-25\/2139\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T Increases Phone Activation Fee To $25"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2141\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2141\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2141\" class=\"wp-image-2141 size-medium\" title=\"AT&amp;T Plans\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ATT-Home-Phone-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"AT&amp;T Home Phone\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>Phone Activation Fee <\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The telecom giant, AT&amp;T recently raised their non-contract phone upgrade and activation fee to $25. The previous fee that non-contract AT&amp;T customers had to pay was just $20. AT&amp;T customers, who have bought the providers phone services, were excluded from paying upgrade or activation fee until July 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to that, the customers, who have brought a phone from AT&amp;T on installment fee, also enjoyed activation and upgrading services for free. However, AT&amp;T customers, who did not sign a two-year agreement with the company, were asked to pay an activation fee of $15 from July 2015. Furthermore, the provider also increased the upgrade\/activation fee for their contract subscribers from $40 to $45 in the same month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AT&amp;T went on to raise the activation fee for their non-contract subscribers from $15 to $20 last year. The company then again raised this fee to $25 a few days ago and this has created a major concern among AT&amp;T\u2019s non-contract phone subscribers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials from the company said that customers who approach AT&amp;T to purchase devices on installment agreements would have to pay an amount of $25 for new upgrades or activations. In addition to that, customers who bring their phone to the network for a new line of service will also have to pay $25, although they will not be charged for upgrading their phones on an existing line of service.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2140\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2140\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2140\" class=\"wp-image-2140 size-medium\" title=\"New Upgrades \" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ATT-Internet-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"AT&amp;T Internet\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ATT-Internet-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ATT-Internet-3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>AT&amp;T Wireless Services <\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are making a minor adjustment to our activation and upgrade fees. The change is effective today,\u201d AT&amp;T officials said. The telecom company also stated that they will be charging $45 activation and upgrade fee even for two-year agreements, but those deals will be \u201cavailable only on select devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reports indicate that AT&amp;T added about 1.5 million wireless customers in the third quarter of 2016 for an estimated total of $133 million. However, the wireless carrier did lose approximately 268,000 postpaid phone subscribers, and a major portion of these customers had cheaper phones with minimum features.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AT&amp;T posted a US wireless operating margin of 29.6 percent \u201cand a best-ever US wireless service EBITDA margin of 50.1 percent.\u201d However, the total revenue of the company did experience a downfall of 0.7 percent year-over-year \u201cdue to decreases in service and equipment revenues.\u201d Many experts claim that the raise in activation fees will help them company to earn a little more revenue from their subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The telecom giant, AT&amp;T recently raised their non-contract phone upgrade and activation fee to $25. The previous fee that non-contract AT&amp;T customers had to pay was just $20. AT&amp;T customers, who have bought the providers phone services, were excluded from paying upgrade or activation fee until July 2015. In addition to that, the customers, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,69],"tags":[116,164],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>AT&amp;T Increases Phone Activation Fee To $25<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AT&amp;T recently announced that they are increasing the phone activation fee to $25. 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