Don’t be put off by the giant ‘Current Balance $0’ You can login to the portal anytime with your number and passcode at:ĩ. It will take you thru to the management portal. It will then show you a page with prefilled details – no need to change/update them, just hit ‘Submit’ We recommend to set it as something easy to remember like ‘1234’ or the last four digits of your new number. You can click ‘Manage account’ (bottom right) to go through to the online management portal (for adding additional data or international call packs)Ĩ. It will ask you to create a new password (4 digit code so you can access your account later, with your phone number and that code). This page confirms the plan you have activated the SIM on, and the phone allocated to the SIM (AT&T Prepaid number) – write down the number, and note if someone from outside the US is calling it, they need to add +1 at the start – Basically you are all done, once you get to here. We don't recommend using your credit card for a number of reasons (& the PIN avoids these):Īuto-billing - lots of people get caught with getting their card billed the following monthsīank or AT&T freezing your account - telcos and banks have a number of fraud measures (they receive a lot of fraud and this being an international transaction doesn't help), and will often freeze your activation, or freeze your bank account, even if just a once-off, but particularly if there is multiple transactionsħ. If you bought say the usd$65 PIN, enter the usd$50 & USD$15 PIN (just select 'add another') It is easiest to add the credit PIN on this page now and then your plan is live for the next 30 days.īut if you wish to add the credit later, eg on arrival to maximise when your 30 days starts - you can.Įnter the top-up/PIN number we emailed you, if you haven't bought one yet, you can do so at: The plan isn't 'live' though, as you haven't added the credit yet. Once you have completed that last step, your SIM is now active (and has a number). (In this example we are selecting the USD$45 plan with 6GB data)Ħ. (otherwise it will want to bill you monthly)

Then press ‘Continue’ (bottom right) and enter your emailĥ. Then select which plan you would like:.

really, fine just to use any US ZIP code, this just determines the starting digits of your phone number) 94117 which is for San Francisco, CA, which will give the starting digits of your allocated number '415'. Or on an iPhone, go to: Settings -> General -> About -> scroll down to 'IMEI'ģ. IMEI (to find it, dial: *#06# you dial this like making a call ) SIM ICCID (this is the long number on back of SIM starting with 890141032790363 xxxxx )Ģ. These SIMs only connect to the network in the US, Canada and Mexico, but your won't show any connection in the US if it is locked.ġ. AT&T has updated how their SIMs can be activated online.

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