AT&T releases free iPhone app for managing wireless accounts
AT&T this week introduced a free iPhone app that lets customers manage their family and individual wireless accounts directly from their iPhone.
The exclusive U.S. iPhone service provider said the application, dubbed myWireless Mobile (free, App Store), is intended to supplement its popular web-based myWireless portal that's used by millions of subscribers looking to review their monthly statements, usage statistics and make changes to their plans.
Among the application's core features is a "Bill and Pay" function that lets customers review their monthly bill in full and make one-touch payments, as well as a "Voice and Data Usage" option for keeping track of voice minutes, text messages and data usage.
The password-authenticated application can also be used to browse, change and easily add features to a wireless account, as well as update payment information and download monthly bills in PDF format.
"Our new AT&T myWireless Mobile app gives iPhone customers more freedom to manage, customize and update their wireless voice and data needs whenever and wherever," said David Huntley, senior vice president, eCommerce & Sales Centers, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets.
The application will prominently display current balance and due dates, as well as last payment information. Customers can make full or partial payments through the app and select payment methods such as previously used checking accounts and credit cards. New payment preferences can also be added through the app.
For parents managing several AT&T accounts through a family plan, the myWireless Mobile app will display voice and data usage across all accounts and break voice minutes down to Anytime, Night & Weekend, Mobile to Mobile and Rollover usage.
Customers wishing to download the myWireless Mobile app must already have an existing myWireless service account, which can set up through AT&T's website. The same username and password for that account will provide account access through the iPhone app.
The exclusive U.S. iPhone service provider said the application, dubbed myWireless Mobile (free, App Store), is intended to supplement its popular web-based myWireless portal that's used by millions of subscribers looking to review their monthly statements, usage statistics and make changes to their plans.
Among the application's core features is a "Bill and Pay" function that lets customers review their monthly bill in full and make one-touch payments, as well as a "Voice and Data Usage" option for keeping track of voice minutes, text messages and data usage.
The password-authenticated application can also be used to browse, change and easily add features to a wireless account, as well as update payment information and download monthly bills in PDF format.
"Our new AT&T myWireless Mobile app gives iPhone customers more freedom to manage, customize and update their wireless voice and data needs whenever and wherever," said David Huntley, senior vice president, eCommerce & Sales Centers, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets.
The application will prominently display current balance and due dates, as well as last payment information. Customers can make full or partial payments through the app and select payment methods such as previously used checking accounts and credit cards. New payment preferences can also be added through the app.
For parents managing several AT&T accounts through a family plan, the myWireless Mobile app will display voice and data usage across all accounts and break voice minutes down to Anytime, Night & Weekend, Mobile to Mobile and Rollover usage.
Customers wishing to download the myWireless Mobile app must already have an existing myWireless service account, which can set up through AT&T's website. The same username and password for that account will provide account access through the iPhone app.
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Remember - you'll get charged when your non-iPhone friends text you.
This is one heck of a good idea
Maybe next they'll do something to beef up their PHONE network....... ...something else a few people would like to use mobile phones for, i.e., to be mobile and actually on the phone.
snark, snark......
Whoa, somebody at AT&T realized you can write "apps" for this gadget!
Maybe next they'll do something to beef up their PHONE network....... ...something else a few people would like to use mobile phones for, i.e., to be mobile and actually on the phone.
snark, snark......
From your lips to AT&T's ears . . .
I wish other carriers would be as innovative (or shall I say original).
This is one heck of a good idea
You aren't serious - are you?
Managing accounts must be that difficult in Europe , I guess.
The BofA app people should take a look at this app. This is done right. The BofA app is a glorified web browser with a slow, archaic interface pasted on it.
And some podcasts that you want to download on the iPhone aren't named / labeled / presented properly do you know the name of the episode you're looking at. Like Macbreak Weekly.
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Looking forward to seeing more and more of these apps.
I wonder if aapl is down today because the Kindle illustrates some problems with tablets. Like how they can look unwieldy. I hope not, I really want a 6 x 8 Apple tablet. Please let those rumored 10" displays be for a tablet.
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So Sad
The BofA app people should take a look at this app. This is done right. The BofA app is a glorified web browser with a slow, archaic interface pasted on it.
I was totally disappointed by the BofA app and its lack of functionality.
When I click on usage within the app I get "Error: U1534 Voice Usage has not posted on your account." But that doesn't make a whole lot of sense does it?
I get this sometimes when I go to their website to check usage.
Whoa, somebody at AT&T realized you can write "apps" for this gadget!
Maybe next they'll do something to beef up their PHONE network....... ...something else a few people would like to use mobile phones for, i.e., to be mobile and actually on the phone.
snark, snark......
They spent their billions creating this app. Now that it's done their start funneling any left over money into updating a tower.
The BofA app people should take a look at this app. This is done right. The BofA app is a glorified web browser with a slow, archaic interface pasted on it.
I wish my bank would produce an iPhone app. They have a mobile site that is more difficult to read on an iPhone.
Ok so its been three years of exclusive rights to the iPhone and now they write a "PAY me" billing app?
So Sad
And they keep overtaxing their already lousy network with all those other new 3G phones they relentlessly advertise and now netbooks added under their umbrella. It is rather sad for the iPhone.
They spent their billions creating this app. Now that it's done their start funneling any left over money into updating a tower.
That would be called a patch - as opposed to building a new tower like Verizon has been doing.