iPhone activated: It took AT&T only 39 hours
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Blog: The good news is that my iPhone is finally activated and it's definitely worth the money. The bad news is that it took AT&T 39 hours to get it done.
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AT&amp;T Inc. has spent $50 million to beef up its relatively slow wireless network in anticipation of the heightened activity expected to follow the iPhone's debut next week, but any customer who isn't wowed by the new gadget will find it costly to cancel the service.
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While many who snapped up Apple Inc.'s iPhone were using the latest must-have gadget even before leaving the store, some buyers were put on hold as they experienced frustrating delays in activating their cell phone service.
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InfoWorld - After standing in line for hours on Friday to buy the new Apple iPhone, some users were forced to wait even longer to&#160;activate the phones&#160;while others found the store shelves empty and will have to wait another week for their phones to arrive in the mail.On Monday, staff at an AT&amp;T store in Boston said they had run out of iPhones on Friday night while a line of customers still snaked out the door.
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AT&T Inc.  said on Thursday it  has hired 2,000 temporary store workers to handle its  much-hyped introduction of the iPhone, the first cell phone  from iPod music player maker Apple Inc. .
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Federal regulators approved the $41 billion purchase of AT&amp;T Wireless by Cingular Wireless, a crucial step in a merger that will create the nation&#39;s largest cellphone company.
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AT&T says it activated only 146,000 iPhones in the first two days the device was for sale.
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Just how much will the iPhone boost AT&T's business?
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Blog: AT&T's wireless data subscribers complained of outages and a slow network Monday, but the company says it wasn't due to the iPhone.
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AT&amp;T&#39;s wireless data networks in the Southeast and Midwest U.S. are down, causing BlackBerry and iPhone users to be without data services.The EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) services in those regions began having problems around 6:30 a.m. EST this morning, said Mark Siegel, an AT&amp;T spokesman. Voice calling has not been affected, but people trying to use wireless data services might have &quot;difficulty,&quot; he said.Several users of a BlackBerry newsgroup have reported being unable to receive data to their handsets. A systems administrator in Kansas reports that BlackBerry devices there are displaying a message that says &quot;data connection refused.&quot;AT&amp;T is still looking into what exactly caused the failure, but technicians have found a solution to the problem and expect the service to be restored by around 3:30 p.m. EST, Siegel said.The iPhone runs on the EDGE network, so users of the phones, as well as any other mobile device that receives data from either of the networks, will have problems using data services.In early 2007, Research In Motion implemented a software upgrade that caused its systems to crash, resulting in a BlackBerry service outage that started in the evening and lasted through the night. This time, the problem appears to be with AT&amp;T&#39;s network and not with RIM&#39;s infrastructure.
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Blog: Some frustrated iPhone early adopters took advantage of the weekend deadline to get a full refund, but most seem satisfied.
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If you&#39;re fed up with using an iPhone on AT&T&#39;s network, you now can download software to unlock your Apple handset. One package, developed by iPhoneSimFree, is now available from resellers in the U.S., the Middle East, and Europe. It&#39;ll set you back $99. Once installed, though, the app allows you to use your iPhone with another carrier.
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The huge gap between the number of iPhones sold by Apple and the number activated by AT&#38;T can't be explained by international sales or unlocked units alone.
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(InfoWorld) - iPhone users across the U.S. were complaining Monday that AT&T's wireless data network was down. The network was down primarily in the West and Midwest, but by 7 p.m. on the East Coast, service was restored, according to Warner May, an AT&T spokesman. He said he didn't know when the problems started. AT&T had isolated the problem and was still working on it, he said. Voice and text messaging services remained fully functional but EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) and 3G services were down, he said. While BlackBerry users had full service, users of other phones in addition to the iPhone were also affected, he said. "The iPhone was not the cause," he said. Several different online forums are full of iPhone users complaining of having trouble using the EDGE network. Posters claiming to be from Dallas, Cincinnati, Tuscon, Oahu, Hawaii, Seattle, and Portland were among the West coast users who say they couldn't connect to the network. Users in Pittsburgh and Indiana also said they couldn't use the EDGE network. A thread on Macrumors also describes users across the country having trouble.
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Blog: While hundreds of people wait outside Apple stores in New York City to get their hands on the iPhone, AT&T stores around the city have only a handful of people waiting in line.
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Apple said the battery of its iPhone will provide up to 8 hours of mobile phone talk time or 6 hours of Internet use.
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AT&T Mobility LLC has received more than 1 million inquiries for Apple Inc.'s multimedia and Web-enabled iPhone cell phone, the San Antonio company said.