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<blockquote data-quote="tRidiot" data-source="post: 3620668" data-attributes="member: 569830">Unless it&#039;s cracked* and you don&#039;t update the firmware, the iPhone automatically signs you up to a new 2-year contract with AT&amp;amp;T.No one is ever &quot;ineligible&quot; to sign a new 2-year contract extension with AT&amp;amp;T, unless you screwed up with them in the past... if you&#039;re a current customer in good standing, it shouldn&#039;t be an issue.However, you may be ineligible for a discounted phone price with a contract extension, if you aren&#039;t very far into your current contract. All this means is that you must pay full price for the iPhone and then activate it and resign your contract for 2 years anyways.Your 2-year contract agreement upon activation will include a data package. I am told you can go and drop that data portion later if you like, although I assume it is during the 30-day grace period that all AT&amp;amp;T contracts allow for &quot;buyer&#039;s remorse&quot;. If you drop your plan down, lose the data package, you will still be able to use your iPhone in nearly all ways as a regular AT&amp;amp;T phone, you just won&#039;t be able to use the data package (duh).It&#039;s all in the fine print of the &quot;User Agreement&quot; you have to accept when activating your iPhone to your AT&amp;amp;T account.*Hacked iPhones with other service providers are very different and the above statements do not apply.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tRidiot, post: 3620668, member: 569830"] Unless it's cracked* and you don't update the firmware, the iPhone automatically signs you up to a new 2-year contract with AT&T. No one is ever "ineligible" to sign a new 2-year contract extension with AT&T, unless you screwed up with them in the past... if you're a current customer in good standing, it shouldn't be an issue. However, you may be ineligible for a discounted phone price with a contract extension, if you aren't very far into your current contract. All this means is that you must pay full price for the iPhone and then activate it and resign your contract for 2 years anyways. Your 2-year contract agreement upon activation will include a data package. I am told you can go and drop that data portion later if you like, although I assume it is during the 30-day grace period that all AT&T contracts allow for "buyer's remorse". If you drop your plan down, lose the data package, you will still be able to use your iPhone in nearly all ways as a regular AT&T phone, you just won't be able to use the data package (duh). It's all in the fine print of the "User Agreement" you have to accept when activating your iPhone to your AT&T account. *Hacked iPhones with other service providers are very different and the above statements do not apply. [/QUOTE]

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