Oh, eff you AT&T

[telophase]

Don't you want to retain me as a customer? Via sleary, the fine print in the AT&T contract:

For non-qualified customers, including existing AT&T customers who want to upgrade from another phone or replace an iPhone 3G, the price with a new two-year agreement is $499 (8GB), $599 (16GB), or $699 (32GB).

For comparison purposes, the new 8-gig iPhone for non-AT&T customers? $99. AT&T, you can bite Mello's fabulous ass.

Gosh, the Sidekick is looking better all the time...

Comments

[sleary.livejournal.com]

"Qualified" means having a contract that's less than 18 months old, as it turns out, so original-flavor iPhone owners qualify but 3G owners generally don't. Apple will figure it out for you (https://buyiphone.apple.com/) if you feed the form a bunch of semi-private info.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The form tells me it will cost $299 + $18 to get an 8-gig iPhone for the early upgrade. I don't want an iPhone that bad. (I'm eligible for the standard upgrade on Nov. 27.)

[mundeemo.livejournal.com]

Crackberry I mean Blackberry is pretty nice as well. I don't know how I lived so long with out one.

[xebra42.livejournal.com]

Just wait. Eventually the iPhone will pop off of AT&T and you can watch people flock AWAY like little rodents :-D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hopefully it drives the prices down. I don't have a grand loyalty to AT&T, but I get a 10% discount for using them through my workplace, which makes them slightly cheaper than comparable plans on other carriers, and my mother and boyfriend both have AT&T wireless, which means I don't use up my minutes when talking to them, so I suspect I'll be staying with them.

[xebra42.livejournal.com]

Agreed, I am in much the same situation. But I think if an attractive options came up, and people moved to that network, I would probably move as well to keep my in-network minutes free :-)