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Briefly: 1.5yrs of free service with iPhone?

updated 06:25 pm EST, Thu January 25, 2007

Free service with iPhone?


Briefly: TheStreet.com analyst Jim Cramer speculates that AT&T will be giving away 18 months of service with the iPhone to attract customers from other carriers: "the company made it very clear that it's going to use Apple's iPhone to get customers from Verizon Wireless by giving away its service for a year and a half to those customers who buy the phone."... Other World Computing (OWC) today announced lowered pricing on its Mercury On-The-Go FireWire 400+USB 2.0 line, with new prices now starting at $115 (up to $20 off); the OWC Mercury On-The-Go line offers up to 200GB of data capacity in a reliable, performance solution that weighs less than 12 ounces and ships with Prosoft DataBackup II.... ThoughtOut is offering 25 percent off all PED products from now until January 31st, including its iPod and other device pedestal stands that offer solid steel quality and other unique design features.


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  1. l008com

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    01/25, 06:44pm | report spam | Reply |

    damn

    I'm a verizon customer, and as soon as my contract is up, bye bye verizon!

  1. silverflyer

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    01/25, 10:05pm | report spam | Reply |

    DAMN is right

    I was going to buy one anyway, but this just seals the deal.

  1. climacs

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    01/26, 12:22am | report spam | Reply |

    not a bad deal

    it remains to be seen what they mean by 'free service'... but that WOULD go a long way towards offsetting the cost of the handset. I currently pay $60/month for 600 peak minutes and unlimited off-peak minutes. A year and a half of that is over $1000. Is AT+T really going to give away $1000 of service to iPhone customers? Maybe by 'free' they are talking about a very basic level of service... even at $30/month, that's $540 over 18 months.

  1. Peter Bonte

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    01/26, 04:02am | report spam | Reply |

    PDA

    Its a good deal even when its very basic with no prepaid minutes, the widescreen iPod without GSM would probably cost exactly the same. De big news here is that AT&T isn't subsidizing the iPhone at all, its subsidizing the service. :8

  1. danviento

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    01/26, 10:34am | report spam | Reply |

    A better offer

    would be to pay for contract severing fees. Or both ;-).

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