AT&T releases myWireless Mobile Home app

Cleve Nettles
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May 05, 2009
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AT&T is swiftly jumping on this new iPhone apps thing with myWireless Mobile Home.app.  It allows you to manage your AT&T account with your iPhone.  Kinda like the AT&T web page.  But on the iPhone.  Get it? (App Store link)

AT&T* (NYSE:T) today announced the availability of its AT&T myWireless Mobile application on the Apple App Store. AT&T developed the application to allow iPhone customers to manage family and individual accounts directly from their iPhone anytime, anywhere.

Supplementing AT&T myWireless, a popular service through www.att.com used today by millions of AT&T customers, the Mobile edition for iPhone brings greater ease and simplicity to virtually all elements of account management. The app's primary functions include:

Bill and Pay – View monthly bill in full and make one-touch payments
Voice and Data Usage – View all voice and data usage, including text messages
Features – Browse and manage bolt-on features, including new texting plans and more
"Our goal is to make the AT&T experience seamless and easy, and as much about the customer as possible," said David Huntley, senior vice president, eCommerce & Sales Centers, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. "Our new AT&T myWireless Mobile app gives iPhone customers more freedom to manage, customize and update their wireless voice and data needs whenever and wherever. Customers can view minutes, add new features, update payment information and download their entire bill with added ease plus peace-of-mind with anytime, anywhere access."

New Ease, Hands-On Account Management
Among other capabilities, AT&T myWireless Mobile will allow password-authenticated iPhone customers to actively view all account billing details, including:

Last payment amount and date
Current balance and due date
Full bill in PDF format
Customers can also manage a range of payment needs using AT&T myWireless Mobile, including making full or partial payments, and selecting payment methods and preferences such as previously used checking accounts and credit cards. Customers can also set up new payment preferences, directly from their device, through the application.

For parents managing several AT&T accounts within a family plan, myWireless Mobile provides easy access to both voice and data usage across accounts. For example, parents can view voice minutes as part of Anytime, Night & Weekend, Mobile to Mobile and Rollover usage; plus, view current data usage and text messages, including both sent and received texts. Account information is available for both family and individual accounts.

AT&T myWireless Mobile also offers convenient access to several AT&T features such as AT&T Smart Limits for Wireless, and texting and data plans. Through the app, iPhone customers can explore and learn more about available features, plus easily add or remove features to and from their current account.

Once AT&T myWireless has been downloaded on iPhone, to access account information, customers must already have an existing myWireless service established via www.att.com. The same username and password will provide account access on iPhone.

The AT&T MyWireless Mobile app is available for free from Apple's App Store on iPhone 3G or at www.itunes.com/appstore/

Comments (10)

absolutchrys (not verified) | May 05, 2009 - 10:06pm

Shit it took them long enough! AT&T should have had an iPhone app since the AppStore's inauguration! This reminds me of how long it took Eggo to start making their own syrup.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 06, 2009 - 11:21am

They did. It's called YPmobile.

Macca (not verified) | May 06, 2009 - 4:24am

This app just compounds my theory that in 5-10 years time everything we do will take place on the Internet and that access to the Net will be available everywhere.

Thinks this is a good idea (not verified) | May 06, 2009 - 7:13am

I travel ALL the time. Seriously, been home 2.5 months in the past year. The ease of being able to pay in an app is great for me. I'm still waiting for other banks/cc co's to create their own apps.

(now is the time where people with vast security concerns start commenting on what a bad idea financial banking/records on a mobile device is a bad idea.)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 06, 2009 - 8:06am

eggo makes their own syrup?

absolutchrys (not verified) | May 06, 2009 - 12:08pm

yup!

should have existed from the beginning huh?

(follow me @ twitter.com/absolutchrys)

NapMan (not verified) | May 06, 2009 - 8:08am

This is pretty nice but I can't believe that AT&T can't work out a way to have an MMS that someone sends you forwarded to your e-mail account. Or at least include a link in the MMS message to let you view it online without having to manually enter that stupid ID and password.

I've pretty much got everyone I know trained to only send pics to my e-mail address but sometimes they forget.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 06, 2009 - 9:04am

I can't believe that AT&T can't work out a way to have an MMS that someone sends you forwarded to your e-mail account.

Oh, maybe because they can't find an additional revenue model for that kind of service?

Seriously, it's all about money. The phone companies could send your messages (SMS, Voicemail, etc) to an email account. They could even let your voicemail automatically handle faxes and send email them to you as PDFs. And they could have rules-based call forwarding and an online roster of who called you and when - even if your phone was turned OFF at the time.

All these things are done by smaller organizations today. But since the phone companies can't figure out a way to do it AND add billions of dollars to their profits, then they don't have much incentive to do it. They don't want to get into a feature war with the competitors.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 06, 2009 - 10:06pm

Is it just me or hss the application been removed from the app store, It says sonething about not being avaliable at the time I'd something close to that.

Slack Jaw (not verified) | May 07, 2009 - 4:45am

Finally an app to control my Mobile Home! I can't wait to show everyone else in my Trailer Park!! I'm gonna see if I can start my washing machine and turn on my front porch light.

SJ