Decaflon

Most cell phone providers bill a month in advance and since you probably needed to add some services to your plan to use the iPhone is why your bill is higher.

How much was your bill prior to purchasing and using your iPhone?

In case you haven't already seen it:

Wow, $200 is a chunk, mine was pretty normal. I'm not sure why you got boned, maybe it was in the middle of a cycle and AT&T can't handle that properly?

Is it true they send you a bill with a page with every text message and everything on it?
EDIT: To anyone else besides iJustine, lol

well i was with verizon before, so god knows what happened. supposedly they billed two months at a time when they start your contract.

what a crappy way to start your service.

My bill was normal (plus activation). But yes, I got a 200+ page bill too. Every call, every text and every data transfer. What a waste of time and paper and money. What the hell was AT&T thinking? It doesn't take a genius to figure out that almost no one would want to see every single data transfer on paper.

My first bill was for two months as well -- I thought it odd but everything seems to be "normal" now.

Proration will get yoi every time: you're paying for the phone the time you had it up until the beginning of the next billing cycle, then the next full month in advance, plus any activations fee. My first bill was $120. The next bill was $66.

So far, my bill was only about 40 pages. I got a text saying they're doinc away with the detail. It will only be available online going forward.

Mine was a bit high, I figured it was the setup fee.

They also announced that they'd be cutting back on detailed bill reporting, presumably after that lady who got the box full of a bill.

Also, you can go online and tell them not to send you a paper bill anymore, instead you'll get one in the email. Saves trees and who needs to know every call you've made when you're paying a flat fee.

Go with less packaging to save the evironment - Apple CHECK
Print 300 pages worth of bill detail for a couple hundred thousand people to kill the trees Apple saved - AT&T CHECK.

WOW, that is insane. I wonder how many environmentalists attacked AT&T's service department for them to get the clue.

I wonder what made AT&T decide to include every txt, etc in the bills compared to every other bill that have sent out, not including anything like that.