AT&T early-termination fee nearly doubling for iPhone
 

Following the lead of rival Verizon Wireless, AT&T says it will raise the penalty for canceling your new two-year smartphone contract early to $325, starting June 1 — and yes, that includes the iPhone.

AT&T early-termination fee nearly doubling for iPhone, other smartphones - Yahoo! News

greed

Trying to lock their customers in for the remainder of the contract so they don't bail to android platform phones... Doesn't ATT have all smartphone platforms except for android? (iphone, pre, windows mobile, blackberry)

If they do that, they should be like O2 in the UK and unlock your iphone provided you pay out your contract.

Doesn't bother me that I'd be tied into 2-year contract. AT&T service suits me just fine. It does mean that I might skip the 5th gen model (assuming that comes out next summer).

In the last year, AT&T have unlocked two phones for me that were out of contract. Neither was an iPhone though. I will probably attempt to get them to unlock my current iPhone 3G when I upgrade to the 4th gen model.

consistent dropped calls = breach of contract for service.. done.. :)

:iagree: But proving that may be a problem.....:dunno:

easy... they have logged my dropped calls.. it even happend 3-4 times calling 611 on single conversation..

If its an iphone I am pretty sure it shows a log of dropped calls in the phone. I know when I went to Apple and complained about the amount of dropped calls the genius hooked up my iphone to a mac and without hesitation gave me a replacement phone. This was for a 1st gen phone. Since the 3G much better service.

Ploy to prevent switching to Verizon iPhone! :)