You know who has a vacation blackout for employees in mid-October? Apple, who is ready to announce a new iPhone next week. You know who else has an employee vacation blackout for mid-October? Sprint, who — you guessed it — is widely believed to get the iPhone 5 next month.
Guess who’s following suit? Yup, AT&T. And not only are they blacking out vacations for the iPhone 5, they’ve even already got the next iPhone n their system.
BGR reports:
With reports circling that Apple’s next iPhone is due to launch on October 14th, BGR has received new information from a trusted AT&T source that seems to confirm a mid-October launch. AT&T has started to block all employee vacation requests for the first two weeks of October in order to have “all hands on deck.” Our source clarified that the dates are the first two works weeks starting on Monday, October 3rd and ending on Friday, October 14th.
In addition, BGR says that AT&T has six placeholder listings for “new products” in its internal database. Those could be anything, but are probably black and white versions of the next iPhone in two capacities, along with a single entry for a lower-capacity $99 budget iPhone 4.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
12 responses to “AT&T, Apple, Sprint All Have Vacation Blackouts Around Rumored October 14th iPhone 5 Launch Date”
… be it an iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, or iPod 3rd generation, we know SOMETHING is coming don’t we.lol
is verizon not following suit?
New ads on the site suck I can’t even visit from my iPhone 3G (I know it’s an older phone but still) there’s gotta be a better way to get that $$
I think that the six items would make the most sense as a white and black iPhone 5 with two capacities along with a new iPod touch also with two capacities.
AT&T doest carry the iPod touch. Why would that be one of the place holders?
This mock up is ugly than the iphone 4 design. A hybrid between the iphone 1 & iphone 3Gs. What a fail. For apple’s sack I hope it doesn’t look like this.