“An initial report from Consumerist.com, quoting an AT&T online service rep, suggested that the carrier shut down online sales because ‘New York was not ready for the iPhone’ and that the city doesn’t ‘have enough towers to handle the phone,'” Kafka reports.
Kafka reports, “New story: Since the Consumerist story appeared Sunday afternoon, AT&T service reps have been telling New Yorkers like me that it won’t sell us the phone online because of fraud problems.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
Available at all 4 Apple stores in NYC
Make that 5 – Confirmed
if you count SI as NYC
Funny??? increased fraudulent activity in only one of AT&T;cities served!
Now that’s targeted online fraud!
How do you spell fraud?
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I wouldn’t want to be the one at AT&T;who has to answer that next call from Steve Jobs! Can you imagine being on the other end of that call?
AT & T is screwed. I can hear Jobs screaming outside my window- in New York.
@loopy_nj
If that ATT executive is using an iPhone in New York City, he’s safe.
Could it be that iPhones bought in the AT&T;store automatically get activated on AT&T;, while those bought on line sometimes get activated “elsewhere”?
We just went through a scenario where AT&T;wanted to charge us a $35 restocking fee on an $80 go-phone. Needless to say we canceled all of our long standing AT&T;contracts and our iPhones are now on T-Mobile. Stealing $35 cost AT&T;about $2000 per year for the foreseeable future.
Maybe now T-Mobile will get the iPhone, please Steve!!