AT&T Can’t Figure Out If They’ll Be Selling iPhone 4s To Walk-Ins on June 24th

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If your iPhone 4 pre-order was unceremoniously canceled by AT&T this week, you might have some notion in your noggin of pulling a Packer and waiting in line to get one.

Well, don’t wait in front of an AT&T store. The company that has managed to victoriously spike the FUBAR line each and every down of the iPhone 4 launch will not be selling iPhone 4s to walk-ins until June 29th.

Or won’t they? According to a TUAW reader:

I spoke with my local AT&T store this afternoon and they informed me that they had received over 50 calls today on the subject (apparently all since the release went out).

They told me that they WILL have iPhones available for folks who show up without a pre-order on the 24th. And that the 29th is when they will start taking in-store orders for those who do not have pre-orders.

Now, the statement from AT&T seems pretty darned clear on the subject. But the employee I spoke to seemed pretty darned convinced that they would have phones available.

In other words, who knows? It’s yet another example of Ma Bell’s garish ineptitude when it comes to smallest detail of handling the iPhone’s incredible demand.

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