On Oct 27, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Anne Cartwright <cartwrig at aye.net> wrote:

> Marta was having so much fun with her iPhone I decided to buy one.
>
> However I guess I will be taking it back to the store because in order
> to activate it you have to give AT & T your social security number  
> and I
> am very reluctant to do so. Especially when I don't really see any
> reason for them to have it. I called AT & T and the first operator  
> said
> there was no other way, but then she said that there was a prepay  
> plan,
> would I be willing to use that. That is exactly what I wanted. In  
> fact I
> would be willing to prepay the whole two years. So she connected me  
> with
> the operator who handles prepay. Guess what? You have to give them  
> your
> social security number and fail the credit check before you can  
> prepay!
>
> So I guess no iPhone for me.

Anne,

I have heard that you can register your phone in iTunes but enter a  
false SSN, like 000-00-0000, to force it to fail and send you to the  
prepay option.

You might try that.

j.

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Jonathan Fletcher
jfletch at newmediaconstco.com
Project Foreman
NewMedia Construction Co.



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