How Can I Lower or Monitor My AT&T Bill?

In a nutshell: To reduce your AT&T bills, consider using your own phone instead of financing a new one and reviewing your past bills via the AT&T website or app. You can bundle services for discounts and enroll in AutoPay and paperless billing for an extra monthly reduction. Check

Introduction

If you are looking to cut expenses, you are probably trying to figure out how to lower your bills. If one of those bills is from AT&T, you have a number of options for not only lowering it, but also monitoring it to make sure you keep your spending within reasonable limits in the future.

What You'll Need

Using your own phone instead of financing a new one will mean lower bills in many cases.You can view your past AT&T bills on the AT&T website and the AT&T app.Bundling different AT&T services can make you eligible for additional bundling discounts.

Go to the AT&T home page.

AT&T home page

Click on the Account link in the upper right corner.

A drop down menu will appear.

Select the Sign In option to sign in to your AT&T account.

Bring up the drop down menu from the nav profile at the top of the page.

Select the Billing and Payment option.

Click on "Edit paperless bill settings."

Switch paperless billing on to stop receiving paper bills from AT&T.

Go to your profile page.

Find the "Billing" section.

Switch on AutoPay.

When you enroll in both AutoPay and paperless billing, AT&T will give you a discount of up to $10 per line each month.

Go to the "Bill & pay history" section.

Look through your bills for unused data that you don't need to be paying for, hidden fees for features you don't need, or insurance on old devices that you don't use anymore.

Eliminate all the waste you find.
This section will show you the past 16 months of your AT&T bills.

Look through your plan's features to see if there is anything, such as premium streaming services, that you don't really need to have.

Go to the AT&T wireless page to look for promotions or discounts that you qualify for.

AT&T wireless page

Scroll down and click the "Phone plans" link.

Look through the plans on the phone plans page to see if there are cheaper plans you could make do with and, if you find one, sign up for it.

Call an AT&T customer service agent and talk to them about any discounts you may be eligible for.

AT&T customer service

If you have been a long time AT&T customer, ask specifically about loyalty discounts.
To learn how to monitor your AT&T bills, continue with the next step.

After signing into your AT&T account, go to your profile page.

Select the Communications option.

Look through the types of alerts about your bill that AT&T can send you to help monitor costs, and switch on those that you think would help.

AT&T offers alerts when you are about to run out of domestic talk minutes, when you go past a certain data limit, when you incur overage charges, and more.

Provide an email address and/or telephone number for the alerts to be sent to.

Click the Save button.

Conclusion

For additional help, call AT&T's customer service department. It is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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