…that this blog continues to be the poster child of AT&T hell. Apparently I also come up #1 for the phrase “AT&T is so stupid.”
I have a feeling that as the Son of iPhone comes out on Friday, my blog will be getting hits from frustrated customers. There will be those finding out that they are not eligible to buy the Son of iPhone at the $199 price, that they will have to shell out $299 instead for the 8GB model. There will be those who think it’s unfair that AT&T will charge existing iPhone customers $18 to upgrade to the new 3G model, or those angry that we have to pay an extra $10 for unlimited data. Of course those of us who don’t want to risk a bricked iPhone later will probably just suck it up with AT&T even though it just plain smarts.
And this from the AT&T Wireless site.
Oh. And guess what. The current agreements include at least 200 text messages a month (with Twitter DMs and updates and whatever other notifications I get in addition to IM’s and regular SMS, I burn 200 text messages in two days). The new ones won’t have any text messages included. If you want to do any text messaging, unlimited text messaging plans start at $20/month unless, of course, you want to pay per message. Not like you can take the Just Say No approach to text messaging. You’re getting charged for incoming messages as well and in the age of mobile spam, it’s a bit of a risk to not have a text messaging plan at all.
Oh. And in-store activations only. Given how well AT&T handled last year’s activations, I could only imagine how they will handle it this time. You don’t get to yell at iTunes or the poor customer service rep on the other line. Nope. This time, you get to yell at a real live customer service rep! I have a feeling I’m gonna be staying in next weekend watching Scoble videos about ongoing geek riots, twittering on my current godphone: “staring at yet-to-be-activated iPhone.”
