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If that’s what you want, fill in the blanks. It usually takes under an hour<br />

for a cellphone number transfer to take place—but it may take several<br />

hours. During that time, you can make calls on the <strong>iPhone</strong>, but can’t receive<br />

them. (At least you didn’t sign up for this service the first weekend<br />

that the <strong>iPhone</strong> was available, when it sometimes took 30 hours for the<br />

swamped AT&T <strong>com</strong>puters to process the number transfers!)<br />

Transferring a landline number can take several days.<br />

If you’re not transferring an existing phone number, just ignore this<br />

screen and click Continue.<br />

Select Your Monthly AT&T Plan. Here’s where you can read about the<br />

various monthly plans.<br />

All of them include unlimited Internet use, 200 text messages a month,<br />

and unlimited calling to and from other AT&T phones. All of them also<br />

offer Rollover Minutes, which is something no other carrier offers. That is,<br />

if you don’t use up all of your monthly minutes this month, the unused<br />

ones are automatically added to your allotment for next month, and so<br />

on.<br />

All but the cheapest plan also offer unlimited calls on nights and weekends.<br />

The primary difference between the plans, therefore, is the number<br />

of weekday calling minutes you get.<br />

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