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By: And Yet More Proof Of Why AT&T Needs To Keep That iPhone Exclusivity « Business Anywhere Blog

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:15:55 +0000

[...] The iPhone 3GS’s launch gave AT&T its best sales day at its retail stores — ever, its second largest traffic day at retails stores, the most transactions it has ever processed in a day, the most orders through att.com in a single day ever and the biggest features sales day at att.com ever. Oh, and it led to the most upgrade eligibility checks ever, which is not surprising at all, though most were probably disappointed. [...]

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By: The iPhone 3GS: Should You Get It?

The iPhone 3GS: Should You Get It? — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:43:46 +0000

[...] full $199 and $299 subsidy on the device. Even after AT&T’s relaxing of the rules a bit, most iPhone 3G owners still are not able to get the subsidy yet. If you cannot, I say wait until you can. If you can get the cheaper price now, the iPhone 3GS is [...]

By: Brandyn

Brandyn — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:13:17 +0000

Well to you all who are saying you can’t get out of your current iPhones to the 3G I say your absolutely wrong

I got the 3G 11 months ago and walked into my store and said “I want the 3GS now” and they did it and I checked my bill for the phone and it was only $199 so I got the fully subsidized price.

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:38:17 +0000

Here’s something that’ll really p*** you off. I live in Shanghai and my voice and data plan cost me $4.00 a month for 450 minutes, 50 MB of data (which I’ve never exceeded) and 160 text messages. I was absolutely gobsmacked when I was checking out the plans in the states. Oh, And I should mention, we aren’t slapped around with taxes and fees either. The $4 is $4. In the states, a $39 plan quickly becomes $59 when you add federal, state, and local taxes, surcharges and unidentifiable fees.

By: justin hileman

justin hileman — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:00:40 +0000

I’m paying AT&T about $110/month, and I have had my phone bill on automatic bill pay since I signed up with AT&T five years ago… I’m still getting the December (12/13/2009) eligibility date. So it looks like $100 might not be the magic number.

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Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:20:34 +0000

[...] offering some existing iPhone customers full subsidies for the new iPhone, but that was only those paying a large amount of money each month. It really should have offered it to all existing customers, just to rope them in for [...]

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By: kate

kate — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:58:29 +0000

Well maybe the upgrade that people are saying their their getting is maybe their getting it based on they aren’t paying their PHONE BILLS LATE?!maybe its not based on whether their spending 100 bucks a month or not? Mayybe itsts if their spending 100 bucks + NOT BEING LATE is why att I s offering it only to certain customers??

By: Sean MacRae

Sean MacRae — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:05:54 +0000

Holy $#!%, I never knew people were paying so damn much for their iPhone bills! It makes me feel good about my iPhone bill though… My wife and I are on a family share plan with 450 minutes per month, but have 2,000 rolloevr minutes (since we convinced AT&T to let us keep them upon moving to the iPhone, even though they tried to void them) so we never go over our included minutes. We each have $5.00 text packages w/ 250 free text and never go over that. We pay $119.00 bucks per month total including taxes. That’s $59.50 per person!

To all you with unlimited text and/or more than 450 included minutes, take a close examination the next couple of months into your actual usage patterns. For your voice usage, consider how your rollover impacts billable usage, but also look at how many peak minutes you use on average (after backing out M2M and NW, and those are free minutes!!!!! it can get a bit tricky to actually calculate the true billable usage). If you consistently have over 300 minuttes accumulating monthly for roll over, you are wasting your money!!!!!!!! For text it’s easy, just look at total text and see if you need unlimited text, or you can move to a 1500, or 500… from my experience most people are overbuying text packages. I do agree that it is better in wireless to overbuy than underbuy, but as a wireless expense management data analyst at eOnTheGo (the premier wireless optimization company for the fortune 100’s) most people just buy what package they think they need without actually looking at their bill and their monthly usage and determining if they even need what they are buying…

$100/month!!!!! Yikes!

By: zdsteele

zdsteele — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:39:05 +0000

We pay $164-something per month for our iPhone family plan (my wife and I both have 3G) -yet we’re STILL we’re not eligible for 199 pricing – not even for a single new 3GS as opposed to two — how does that make sense?

By: td

td — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:26:51 +0000

Just checked the eligibility site, and was surprised to find I’ve been offered the normal price for 32gigs at $299. I got my 3G on the second day they were out, with the lowest voice plan, and unlimited text.

By: Apple iPhone 3G S Review | Everything You Need To Know About The New Apple iPhone 3G S » Have A “Cheap” iPhone 3G Plan? Don’t Expect A “Cheap” iPhone 3G S Upgrade - Techcrunch

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:21:29 +0000

[...] owners — but which ones? Basically, it looks like those with the most expensive contracts.” Click here to read more… Posted on Jun 18, ‘09 at 09:24am | tags: 3G S, AT&T, launch, pricing, [...]

By: vicki

vicki — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:06:01 +0000

Sorry–meant to say that *the 3gS* isn’t all that much of a step up. Some good additions (esp. the camera), but nothing that totally rocks my socks off.

By: vicki

vicki — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:03:36 +0000

The OS update adds a lot to the 3g, which will do me just fine until I’m out of thrall with ATT. By that time, there will be an even better version of the iphone out (which isn’t all *that* much of a step up), and it may well be on the superior Verizon network by then. I’d rather be in thrall to the better network anyway, thankee kindly.

By: locutus

locutus — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:49:13 +0000

You should hook up with @basementdad since you both seem to like pointing out that you don’t have an iphone on the comments page of an article about the iphone. I like to go into Porche owners forums and comment that I’m glad I don’t have a Porche and instead cruise around in my tricked out 87 Honda.

By: locutus

locutus — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:43:52 +0000

As a Borg I rarely use the word “dude”, or “I” for that matter. But, dude, what is standing next to you in your twitter profile picture? Please, basementdad, tell me it’s photoshop. And btw, basementdad sounds a little freaky. And you’re following 78,000+ people? I’m a friggin’ Borg and I can’t stand being plugged into more than a few hundred drones in my collective at once. Our research has shown that following more than 100 people turns you into a complete moron, and more than 1000 is the equivalent of a Tijuana back alley ice pick lobotomy. I don’t even know what 78,000 would do to the human mind. You’d be mathematically incapable of a complete independent thought. I’m surprised your autonomic functions still work.