{"id":14237,"date":"2011-11-22T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T18:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=14237"},"modified":"2024-01-11T16:29:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T22:29:36","slug":"att-gives-iphone-3gs-a-price-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/11\/att-gives-iphone-3gs-a-price-bump\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T gives iPhone 3GS a price bump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In case you may have missed the news and or confusion on Twitter this past Friday, AT&T announced that the iPhone 3GS is no longer free with a two-year agreement. Nope, if you’re in the market for a new free iPhone you may be out of luck if you’re going through your local AT&T store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a strange about-face from AT&T after the October 4th keynote, in which both Apple and AT&T gushed that a “free” iPhone would be a hit with broke<\/del> price-conscious consumers. It was in fact every bit the success that both AT&T and Apple assumed it would be as the free phones have been flying off the shelves at a breakneck pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What seems to be adding to the confusion is the fact that you can still pick up a free iPhone 3GS at your local Apple Store with a two-year agreement on AT&T. It seems that the price bump has less to do with AT&T backtracking than it does with AT&T trying to prevent fraud. As noted in TUAW’s report, by raising the price of the phone to $.99, it would require a credit or debit card purchase instead of adding the cost of the phone to a subscribers phone bill. This would in theory prevent a scammer from ordering the phone and having it added to an unsuspecting mark’s account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchases directly from Apple seem to be exempt since Apple requires an Apple ID for the purchase to go through, thus validating the order and offering a thin layer against potential fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: TUAW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Free iPhone 3GS Gone at AT&T? Not So Fast! Snag Yours at Apple Stores (Still Free!). Apple still offers free iPhone 3GS with 2-year AT&T plan! 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