fEArmE

Thanks for the Red Pocket. Now I have 3G with $10 a month!

JRomulus

Have installed Red Pocket and it seems to work pretty well in the Chicago market.
3GB 5 bars where I am.

And if I am doing the math right:

Red Pocket = $.01/MB; 512MB for $5/30 days.

TruPhone = $.09/MB; 150MB for $15/90 days


From my experience, if you must put in at least $15 every quarter otherwise you forfeit your prepaid TruPhone data purchase. You can carry it over into the next calendar quarter, but you will need to load up another $15 in any give quarter to do so.


For ATT 2G option (for older C7's) what does the final total come out to with $10 and the inevitable taxes, anyone got their first bill yet?

Alphatero

Are you sure about that? I am going on 5 months now with my original minutes purchase at Truphone, and the full balance is still there. And I find nothing on their website that discusses 90 day forfeitures. If what you say is true, please give a reference.

JRomulus

That is exactly the problem, Alphatero. They have nothing on their website. Last April 5th, (which was my 6th month, btw) I could not log on even though I still had unused funds, I enquired, and here is what they said:

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"Thank you for the e-mail. I am looking into things now and as per checking it shows that the last top up that you made was on Jan 1, 2014 and as of the moment due to some restrictions on our system once the account had no top up made for 90 days the account will be INACTIVE.

Our Network Engineers is currently working about it and on my end as a courtesy, I added a $5 goodwill credit on your account. Kindly try to check if you will be able to use the SIM card."
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So I would suggest you let it ride and let us know what happens in month 6 and beyond.
Because since the minimum top-up is $15, that means the effective minimum amount per month is $5 for 50MB, if it really does expire.

JokerzWld

Owners: I called ATT to try and buy my SIM for my 2015 A6 TDI and got nowhere with her telling me "we dont support that feature."
Let me refresh the sequence for getting ATT service in my car:
1. get large size SIM from ATT and add to Family Plan as new line. I have ATT plan. What do I tell them which device this card is going into?
2. Pull T-Mobile card and insert ATT.
3. Guide me as how to install card and complete sequence please
thank you in advance-Joker

Ten Beers

Joker,

One thing I learned the hard way was that IF AT&T activates the SIM card as an LTE device it will not work in at least my 2014 A6. What I finally did was ask for a new, large sized SIM card for a 3G tablet device added to my family plan, and once they activated that SIM it was simple, just as you've seen from other forum members. With the vehicle off, just remove the existing T-Mob SIM, insert the new AT&T SIM, start the car and in a few minutes it should work.

My AT&T store gave me the SIM card for free and they were able to activate it there as well.

Cheers,
Ten Beers

JRomulus

Ten,

What is the final monthly total after tax for the device on your plan? $11 or $12 and change? Thanks.

Ten Beers

JR,

I haven't had a normal month yet, but the current bill is $15.06 for a month plus a week. In looking at the detail I'm guessing $12.25 per month all-in so you are all over it.

Ten Beers

McFuzz

Does using non original SIM cards for the MMI (meaning - not what came to use with AudiConnect originally) allow you to download and update nav maps? Or does it only update google maps satellite images but the actual 'maps' are a different source?

This is on a '14 A6.

DirkM

Changing the SIM card will not allow you to get nav updates from other sources than the dealer.