A Closer Look at iPhone Contract Reveals AT&T’s Knife in Your Back
This is just insane. Being European, I’m not sure what’s the standard for mobile phone contracts in the USA, but this one definitely doesn’t sound too good for the customer. Double billing? Rounding by minute/kilobyte? Billing for calls that didn’t go through? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought these were the practices from the dark middle ages of mobile telephony.
As much as I’d like to see the iPhone a platform for the next generation of mobile 2.0 content, with these ominous details surfacing I’m not so sure it will happen. One thing is sure - I’d never, ever, sign that contract, not even if they gave me the iPhone itself for free.
*Edit: judging from the comments in the Digg post on the same subject, some of these points (double billing) seem to be standard for the USA. Price and everything else calculated, I still feel that this is a raw deal for customers.
July 11th, 2007 at 5:28 am
Double Billing!
That was like in India 6 years ago! There is technology available to NOT charge two ways for this kind of stuff in so called “third world countries” but apparently the U.S still thinks they’re advanced!
Oh Boy!
Note to self: Never ever move to the U.S.A!
July 14th, 2007 at 5:19 am
Oh, I don’t know. Knowing that greed is their only motivation lets you use that against them…only I haven’t quite figured out exactly how to do that yet. Once I get that little bug worked out of my plan, AT&T better look out!
July 16th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
In Europe, there’s only one charge, if the call goes through, and it’s paid by the caller.
And it’s taxed per second, for most the phone operators.
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