UPDATE: AT&T offers iPhone users 1000 free Rollover minutes

Check out my reception! I swear I never have more than 2 bars. It's like it knew I was going to take a picture

Hard to believe that's all AT&T would offer. 1000 ROLLOVER minutes and free spam for your phone.

That is a very weak response to the threat Verizon poses to taking away real subscribers. I am sure that the we will see Verizon retake the top subscriber trophy from AT&T in the coming weeks when the numbers come out.

Wonder if accepting the free 1,000 rollover minutes will push out your contract end date (OR put you back in contract, if you are presently out of contract.) If so, not worth it. IMO.

According to the AT&T text message that some users are receiving "there is no cost or obligation to you".  It doesn't seem like AT&T has placed any sort of requirement on this other than to opt you in to their marketing list (which you can opt out of by texting stop). The promotion doesn't appear to have any effect on your contract.

I agree with you though that AT&T will gave to improve a lot more than rollover minutes if they hope to keep their customers. One blogger commented "maybe next week they'll resort to improving their calling network"

Funny you mentioned their network in a quote. I was thinking the same thing. My wife is still on AT&T and the it seems that 3% of the country they don't cover seems to follow her wherever she goes.
I'm guessing, if not hoping, that we will see the iPhone on all carriers by next year.

I'm absolutely unimpressed with the ATTWS offer. Of course I didn't receive the offer as I currently have unlimited minutes on my 3GS. I'm interested in seeing what, if anything they offer me to upgrade to an iPhone 4. I'm eligible for an upgrade now; I could always trade in my 3GS to Radio Shack and take the $162.00 credit they are offering me. That makes the cost of a new iPhone 4 to be about $60.00, plus sales tax on $199.00. Time will tell. Other than this underwhelming offer from ATTWS, I'm looking forward to those customers migrating to Verizon as that will open up the bandwidth at ATTWS. Competition is GREAT for consumers!

These "EXPERTS" who say that 25% of AT&T iPhone users will go to Verizon do 't seem to agree with other "EXPERTS" who say 6% will leave. There has always been a loud vocal minority complaining about AT&T. No carrier guarantees service in the home so why didn't they return it within the allowable period? As for dropped calls I have been with AT&T (etc. etc) since 1998 and NEVER had dropped calls until the iPhone. Now this is APPLE'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET - five antennae packed into the GSM model makes it difficult to pull in any low strength signal. Now the Verizon CDMA version has only TWO antennae, therefore they can be larger and pull in a better signal. Verizon didn't want Apple to activate the other antennae so that they could avoid the APPLE PROBLEM on the AT&T network; but wait until the 5 comes out and VERIZON will have the same problems that AT&T has - SEVEN ANTENNAE in one small phone AND THE GSM SIM CARD BLOCKED TO VODAPHONE CARRIERS!! I receive a very strong signal here in LA and suffer very few dropped calls. I wouldn't even consider moving to Verizon as I would loose too many of the iPhone features ( conference calling, switching before callers. Using data at the same time as talking, etc). Why would I move to America's largest but slowest network? VZ download speeds are 2 1/2 to : times slower than AT&T - FACT.
As to retaining customers I haven't seen any mention of the AT&T unlimited text messaging with FREE MOBILE TO ANY MOBILE !! Every one only seems to put down the extra rollover minutes. Good luck with VERIZON :)

I agree, Reece T! And, for anyone who uses their iPhone on international travels, Verizon will certainly take you nowhere. While AT&T's service in the US may give you some dropped calls, their service internationally is exceptional. And, if you know how to set it up properly, it's not that costly. If you travel a lot, I would highly discourage moving to Verizon. Just my two cents worth...

CHICAGO — 4G World — Everyone knows that AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is planning to move to Long Term Evolution (LTE) later this year, but is the operator also planning a further upgrade of its 3G network in 2011.

In his keynote here, David Haight, VP of business development at AT&T’s Emerging Devices Organization, said that if users roam off LTE, they would go to faster 3G in 2011. “The good news is that you’re going to fall back to HSPA+, so you’re falling back to 14.4 megabits, not 7.2 or 3.6,” Haight told the crowd. (See 4G World: AT&T Learns Lessons From iPad.)

So far, AT&T has only said that it will deploy the earlier 14.4Mbit/s upgrade by the end of 2010, revealing nothing about a 21Mbit/s upgrade in 2011. So we asked AT&T what the official word on this was.

“HSPA+ technology has a theoretical maximum speed of 21Mbps,” a spokeswoman said, in an email reply to questions. “WE HAVE NOT BEGUN DEPLOYING THE TECHNOLOGY AT THIS TIME”,she said that ONLY last October – then now magically they are 4G (See AT&T Plots Widescale HSPA+ Rollout .)

Nonetheless, if AT&T is interested in keeping up with GSM rival T-Mobile then HSPA+ is a logical progression. T-Mobile is currently rolling out a 21Mbit/s upgrade for over 100 cities now; it currently has the speed boost running in 100+ cities in the US. They proud of announcing every city that they lit up for 21 hspa+ but AT&T cannot do that because they are just putting 7.2 & 14.4...

The average download speeds offered on 21Mbit/s HSPA+ are in the 5 to 8 Mbit/s range, but we seen Max. of 12.5Mbps in Samsung Galaxy S 4G in some city with 3Mbps upload. (See T-Mobile’s HSPA+ Rivals Clearwire, US LTE Speeds.)

When we are in Austin,Texas for ANDROID FESTIVAL, TMobile executives said that 42Mbps hspa+ will be available by last week of MARCH or 1st week of APRIL - 2011 then AT&T will start to deploy 21Mbps hspa+ that time... LATE IN THE GAME!!!

I called a friend who is engineer in AT&T MOBILITY DEPT. (15 years) & he said to me that THEY STILL USE THE 7.2Mbps & SOME city with 14.4Mbps HSPA, NOT YET THE 21 HSPA+ (maybe they will start last week of February or 1st week of March, he said in SOME CITIES NOT 100+ LIKE TMOBILE) So the hspa that AT&T saying that will cover more is the 7.2 & 14.4 NOT THE 21 HSPA+...

BEST LIAR OF ALL TIME & ALWAYS CRYING – AT&T…

Anybody received 1000 minutes?

Just checked mine. I got them! I was surprised because I was a bit skeptical when I first read about it. Thanks AT&T.

I got mine the other day!!! No additional messages either...It's all good...