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Activate iPhone on a prepaid plan

There's a way to avoid the standard AT&T contract plan and sign up for pre-paid minutes on your iPhone. With this hack, you can activate your phone for a fixed amount. Even after you've used your prepaid minutes -- or remove the sim card entirely -- the phone will continue to function as a WiFi enabled iPod.

The trick is to fail the credit check during the registration process. This will force the registration software to offer you the prepaid plan instead! It's as simple as entering a bogus 999-99-9999 SSN during the registration process.

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Posted by Jason Striegel | Jul 3, 2007 07:57 PM
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Posted by: John Smith on October 7, 2008 at 1:11 PM

how comes it does not work when I've tried what you suggested?

I got an iphone the other day, and i really need the pay as u go plan just for a week or so. I tried tricking the SS# like u suggested but it just says invalid SS#.. do you know why this would be happeneing and also is there anything else i can do?