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34 hours of streaming music
68 hours of surfing the web
3,000 social media posts with photos
4 hours of streaming standard definition video
The free data also isn’t automatically applied to your bill. You have to transfer the earned data into your account in 25 MB increments. And once you transfer that data you lose it if there’s any left at the end of the month.
If you’ve transferred the maximum amount of monthly data, any data left in your Data Perks app account can be used the following month. Earned data does not expire “provided you enter the app and verify your eligibility at least once every 12 months,” according to AT&T.
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