Carriers Offer Free Service to Areas Hit by Hurricane Harvey

You can make a $10 donation to the American Red Cross for Hurricane Harvey disaster relief efforts by texting the word HARVEY to 90999.

By Angela Moscaritolo
August 28, 2017

The nation's top mobile carriers are offering free data to areas hit by Hurricane Harvey.

"Sometimes life throws the unexpected at you, and it could mean using extra data that you weren't planning on needing," Verizon wrote on its website. "Verizon is offering 3GB of bonus data to qualified Texas counties, so you can stay connected when it matters most."

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T-Mobile is making it free for customers — including those who use its prepaid brand MetroPCS — to make calls and text from impacted areas of Texas and Louisiana. The offer is available through Sept. 1.

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Sprint is also waiving call and text fees for customers — including prepaid users on Boost and Virgin Mobile — in the impacted areas of Texas and Louisiana through Sept. 1. Sprint is advising affected customers to text, when possible, instead of calling "due to high call volumes and possible network congestion in the local area."

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Finally, AT&T said it will "issue credits to … wireless customers in impacted areas for additional data, voice, and text charges," racked up from Aug. 26 to Sept. 1. The company will also credit affected prepaid customers for additional voice and text charges.

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