Media Kit: AT&T Support Our Troops
Support
for the Troops
Honoring active military personnel, their families and veterans.
Overview
AT&T and its employees are grateful for the sacrifices that military personnel make every day on behalf of the nation. We share the goal of providing them an affordable way to call home.
To date, AT&T has built roughly 70 calling centers in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan and has donated nearly $8 million worth of prepaid calling cards for military personnel. The company also continues to support meaningful programs that provide free streaming video communications to military families, entertainment for military members away from home, and relief for those called to active duty.
Cell Phones for Soldiers
AT&T Supports Cell Phones for Soldiers
A long-standing mission of AT&T is helping connect military families. Cell Phones for Soldiers, initiated in 2004 by then 14-year-old Brittany Bergquist and her 13-year-old brother Robbie, uses funds from recycled cell phones to buy prepaid phone cards for active duty military members – to help connect them with their families.
Through generous donations and the recycling of used cell phones from drop-off sites across the country, Cell Phones for Soldiers has already raised more than $1 million and distributed more than 75 thousand phone cards to soldiers overseas.
In support of these young visionaries—and the many military families they support — AT&T has donated 60,000 prepaid phone cards to the nonprofit organization, so they can send more cards to military members. Additionally, AT&T is now offering all 2,000-plus company-owned wireless store locations across the country as drop-off sites to help recycle used cell phones for the program.
Complete list of drop-sites for recycled cell phones.
Click here to start donating your old devices.
To share your feedback with AT&T on this program, please e-mail: troopsupport@attnews.us.
For more information on Cell Phones for Soldiers, visit www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com.
For more information on recycling wireless phones, batteries, and accessories visit AT&T Reuse & Recycle.
Prepaid Phone Cards
AT&T Prepaid Phone Cards
In 2000, the Department of Defense awarded AT&T a competitively bid contract to provide calling card and other services to our troops through the Army Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES). The award was based on AT&T's ability and commitment to build, maintain and service calling centers, equipment and international links around the world to assure that U.S. troops would be able to call home with ease and reliability at affordable rates.
- AT&T provides prepaid phone card services from Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) military bases.
- Calling to or from a country outside of the United States is more costly than making calls within the United States. For this reason, AT&T has worked with AAFES to develop prepaid calling cards specifically designed for use by military personnel overseas.
- AAFES makes its cards available to service personnel and others online at https://thor.aafes.com/scs/default.aspx.
Fleet Week Donations
Military and Veteran Support
Military and Veteran Support
For more than 85 years, AT&T has remained dedicated to supporting active military personnel, their families and veterans through charitable contributions, event and program sponsorships, hiring of military veterans and maintaining policies that support reservists when called to active duty. In addition to its commitment to hiring veterans, AT&T has been a pioneer and leader in the inclusion of disabled-veteran-owned business enterprises in the corporate supply chain.
Service Discounts for Military Members
Learn more about services and special offers designed for military members. A valid military e-mail address is required to receive discounted service plans.
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Featured Podcast
- Cell Phones for Soldiers
Hear from the two Massachusetts teenagers - Brittany and Robbie Bergquist - who founded Cell Phones for Soldiers on AT&T's support of their efforts, including making 1,800 AT&T stores drop-off locations for old cell phones