AT&T today announced a new application called Recharge that makes it possible to buy voice minutes or texts for customers in other countries.
The idea is to allow postpaid AT&T customers to connect with family and friends via the prepaid accounts owned by those relatives in their home country. AT&T customers interested in buying airtime credits for their family/friends will need to download the app, sign into their account, and choose the appropriate international number.
AT&T will apply credits of $10, $15, $20, or $30 to the prepaid phone accounts of people in Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru. The account credits can be applied to voice, messaging, or data services. AT&T is limiting these transactions to one per month. The credits are billed to the AT&T customer’s postpaid account.
