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Miles for AT&T Wireless?

Can you earn miles for using an AT&T one rate wireless phone? I've bought two for me and my boss, and a third for my wife. It would be nice to get some miles for this.

I believe that they may be working on it for the future.

The only way that I know of today to earn Freq. Flyer miles with AT&T Wireless is to charge your bill to a credit card that earns miles. Sounds kinda obvious, but many people aren't doing it.

That's a good point. I have all three of my phone bills charged to my AMEX...that's about 4,500 miles per year for doing nothing!

Charging to a credit card also gives you the advantage of not paying and getting the CC company on your side should this be necessary in a dispute (usually more of an issue with MCI, but I have found this leverage useful).

AT&T Wireless also takes Diners for those interested in getting the maximum possible number of miles per dollar on their wireless usage.

I just tried to sign up for AT&T personal rewards, but from what I can decipher from their site you MUST have AT&T residential long distance to participate (I called them to confirm this) and you forfeit all your points if you leave AT&T residential service and do not switch back within 60 days. Also, you can only have this offer, OR the BA 5 miles per dollar on your residential line. Since AT&T rewards pays only 1 Starwood point per $ = 1mile this isn't as good as the BA deal, and the BA deal is nowhere near as good as current offers from Sprint and MCI. So it's hard to justify having a line with AT&T at this point just to get 1 mile per dollar spent on wireless unless you have really big wireless bills.

The only useful thing I could figure out about this is that some of the language on the AT&T terms and conditions seems to say that if you had residential AND wireless service on a combined bill, then you'd still be eligible even if you dropped the residential service. But the CS rep denied this. She didn't seem too well informed though--didn't even know you could get BA miles from AT&T, etc.