Huge iPhone Bill Ships “In. A. BOX!”
By Pete Mortensen (8:05 am, Aug. 14, 2007)
It’s a minor triumph of Apple’s that all AT&T plans for the iPhone include unlimited data services. After all, Blackberries and Treos alike have spendy access plans that dramatically increase their cost of use.
But as Justine Ezarik (a designer based in Pittsburgh known as iJustine who is also a “lifecaster” on Justin.tv) learned recently, AT&T still has a very old-world view of billing for data services. The company broke out as a line item every data transfer her iPhone made, including 30,000 texts, most of which come up as a huge series of $0.00 transactions. The total heft to the package? 300 pages. And it shipped in a box, which can’t have been cheap, even leaving aside the environmental impact of a few hundred thousand folks getting extra-big bills printed on paper.
In response, Justine has put up a marvelous iPhone ad parody that you can view above via YouTube. The message is clear: Get eBilling, and someone talk to AT&T about the way they manage billing for data!
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Thats awful–but she’s kinda cute isn’t she!
Trev, on August 14th, 2007 at 8:47 am
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300 Seiten iPhone-Rechnung, on August 14th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
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iJustine gets a 300 page phone bill from AT&T | The Official iJustine Fan Site, on August 14th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Y’know, if the iPhone does become the biggest thing ever and Apple does sell millions of them, it’ll be in spite of AT&T. Between this and the speed of the data services and AT&T’s issue with validating new users on the first day it went on sale, it’s like they’re looking for a way to screw this up.
Of course, they do have a history of this sort of thing …
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Michael, on August 16th, 2007 at 12:54 pm