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AT&T Lets You Put Ovi Store Purchases On Your Phone Bill

By The Guru on January 6, 2010

Ovi Store Carrier BillingToday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, AT&T finally launched support for Nokia’s Ovi Store – including carrier billing. AT&T customers using Nokia devices can now charge purchases made in the Ovi Store directly to their phone bill – eliminating the need to setup a credit card with Nokia separately.

The move is certainly welcome, though I’m unsure of how many people it will actually affect, given Nokia’s current status in the U.S. market, and on AT&T, specifically. However, with as much resources as AT&T likely had to invest to setup this support, hopefully we’ll see more Symbian-powered smartphones on the carrier soon.

I personally would love to see the Nokia N97 Mini, X6, or the E72 launched on AT&T, preferably with little-to-no branding. What do you think?

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  • Vee

    I surely hope Nokia has something more substantial to announce – because this isn’t news. I purchased Gravity from Ovi Store on my 5800 XM and had it carrier-billed to my AT&T account a couple weeks ago. Yawn.

  • Vee

    I surely hope Nokia has something more substantial to announce – because this isn’t news. I purchased Gravity from Ovi Store on my 5800 XM and had it carrier-billed to my AT&T account a couple weeks ago. Yawn.

  • Viipottaja

    I think these are major news – afaik the first time a major carrier in the US is directly supporting an Ovi Service – a competing one to their own service at that, if I am not mistaken (there is probably some BS AT&T service for downloading “content” aka ringtones etc.).

    It seems that Nokia is making slow but steady progress in getting at least a small foothold back in the US market.

  • Viipottaja

    I think these are major news – afaik the first time a major carrier in the US is directly supporting an Ovi Service – a competing one to their own service at that, if I am not mistaken (there is probably some BS AT&T service for downloading “content” aka ringtones etc.).

    It seems that Nokia is making slow but steady progress in getting at least a small foothold back in the US market.

  • http://twitter.com/marxistvegan Stephen

    I'd love to see any of those devices on AT&T but little to no branding certainly not going to happen. What I do wonder is with the google announcement will AT&T let nokia sell the device separately from nokiausa with less branding? That'd be nice.

  • http://iUnlock.com/ Adam@iUnlock

    As long as the hardware isn't customized as with the E71x, it wouldn't matter whether the phone was SOLD as a branded device :) As long as AT&T sells an E-Series that ends in -2 or N-Series that ends in -3, we're good. Sadly, this is unlikely. As everyone knows, a smartphone is completely useless unless it has dedicated hardware keys for MediaNet and AT&T Navigator…

  • Rohan

    Is the operator billing only for phones bought via ATT like the E71x or the Surge, or will it work with any nokia phone like an amazon purchased N82 or N900 ?

  • Rohan

    Plus, why the hell isnt this advertised anywhere, inlcluding Ovi store or the ATT website ? This is among the thousand reasons why nobody cares about nokia services.

  • http://thenokianetwork.com SteveRowlands

    I'm actually amazed that this has only just managed to be implemented. Is this just premium SMS style purchasing?

  • http://www.rickycadden.com Ricky Cadden

    the screenshot on the post was taken from the Euro N97 Mini that I'm reviewing – so it works on *any* Nokia device with an AT&T SIM card in it, branded or not.

  • http://twitter.com/marxistvegan Stephen

    wow Rohan, cool your jets, they just announced it for Microsoft, Android, etc, none of which are advertised on at&t's website. Second, the other part of the press release stated new Nokia devices will be coming too, so i am sure there is an add campaign that At&t is likely building. I agree these things should have happened earlier but at&t is not know for immediate release. I think this is less to do with Nokia (for once) and more to do with At&t business plan (which I think is leaning toward poor)

  • Archie_

    I got an email today from Nokia about Ovi 1.6 – with the ability to be billed from my phone bill. I'm in South Africa, and I can't help noticing Nokia's latest charm offensive with the Ovi Store and Nokia Maps/Free Navigation. There must be something wrong – of my prayers have been answered. hmmmm…

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com khouryrt

    Good to see someone admitting they're doing things right lately :)

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