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AT&T gets slapped for deceptive third-party charges {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 3rd 2008 1:12PM When are customers actually going to be held responsible for the T/C's they actually sign on for/agree to? These companies always almost always have double opt-in policies, a warning statement at the top of the page that state they'll also be signed up for a $9.99 subscription, etc.
Oh, wait - I forgot. No one's held responsible for their own actions anymore.
AT&T loses its cool over GoPhone unlockers {Engadget Mobile}
Feb 19th 2008 7:25AM Those GoPhones may be more expensive than what you'd get on a contract, but they STILL aren't full retail (full retail from Motorola w/out a contract on a RAZR=well over $200), but they are losing MAJOR money on the ACCESS COSTS customers pay to be able to talk on those phones - be it iPhones or GoPhones.
With iPhones, only 1/3 of them were activated on AT&T monthly service plans. 1/3! So Apple makes their money on the sale of the phones, but AT&T is losing 2/3 of the revenue it was supposed to receive from those iPhone purchases! How is AT&T NOT losing money on THAT deal?!
...it must be so tiring being such a communist.
AT&T loses its cool over GoPhone unlockers {Engadget Mobile}
Feb 18th 2008 7:42PM Yeah, the same argument was made for AT&T when the iPhones were being bought, unlocked, and activated on other netorks - even though it's blatently fraudulent to do as these people are doing, everyone is so caught up in their own "screw the man" mentalities that they can't actually be logical about it.
When you buy a phone in this manner (either GoPhone or iPhone), you agree to abide by a certain set of terms and conditions. To not do so is totally wrong and there's no excuse for it. Just because the company you try to screw is a big company doesn't make it right.
Verizon plans to disseminate your data, unless you 'opt out' {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 13th 2007 6:59PM I, like D Train, work for VZW Customer Service. I think this new policy sucks. Absolutely, positively sucks. The only bright side here is that you can opt out at ANY TIME. Not JUST within the first 30 days. So, if you don't opt out w/in those 30 days and you start being bothered, you can STILL opt out.
Again, the phone number to opt out w/in the first 30 days is: 1(800)333-9956
To opt out AFTER those 30 days: cpni-notices@verizonwireless.com OR by fax: 866-745-4661
If you are unhappy with the policy, I encourage all of you to write a letter to the Executive Relations Department. Call *611 or 1(800)-922-0204 to get that address. Those letters ARE READ. If enough people bitch, this really could go away entirely.
iPhone users calling for class action lawsuit over firmware v1.1.1 {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 1st 2007 10:14AM Exactly, Ryan! That's the whole reason T/C's are created - to warn people before they proceed. Once warned, it's the end user's fault. Period.
Everyone's just too busy with their "Apple is greedy/Screw Steve Jobs" rants that they refuse to take responsibility for their own actions/live up to their end of the contract they had to agree to when activating their iPhone.
People could have opted out of the update, knowing full well what might happen, but they didn't. They took a risk and it didn't end in their favor. No one else's fault!
Seriously, folks. Grow up.
Tilt, Duo, Inferno, and Q9h to blow out AT&T's October? {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 11th 2007 3:04PM Dude, where have you people been? VZW's coming out with 15 phones by the end of the year.
iTunes 7.4.1 already released -- free ringtone workaround is NOT ok {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 10th 2007 12:08PM See, is you could do any sort of media messaging on the iPhone, you could save your own mp3's ripped from your own CD's as ringtones, as most of VZW's newer phones are capable of doing (in my case, the LG-en-V).
Good luck wiping the word "Sucker" scrawled on your forehood, iPhone users.
