actually to my understanding u can not just void ur contract when ur only 3 months in and get a new contract, and get a discount on a new phone, that was just a dumb remark.
what I meant was as of right now, remember the phone isn't going to launch until july 11th, but as of right now, at&t has not figured out how to price the iphone for customer's that are not eligible for an upgrade. Only customers that have the old iphone can upgrade to the 199 / 299 price even if they are not eligible for an upgrade, but say you just recently bought a blackberry 3 months ago, well you still have 21 months left in contract and are not eligible for an upgrade, and as of right now at&t has no price for the customers in that situation. granted they may allow you to void ur current contract to make a new one only for the new iphone 2, but traditionally, if a customer has more than a year left in their contract, voiding it is nearly impossible. think about it, if you could void ur contract with out early termination fees, and get a new phone for a discounted 2 year price every month at&t would lose ALOT of money. Now seeing that the iphone is now at&t benchmark phone, they may allow some flex and say hey if your going to get the iphone 2 we will void ur contract and let u get the iphone for 199/299 and start a new 2 year agreement, or maybe they will charge those customers a premium to do so, but as of RIGHT now there is no answer to this situation.
also the data plan is 10 dollars more not b/c at&t is going to pocket 10 more and make their money back kind sir, but b/c you are now going to utilize more bandwidth b/c the 3g access + the enriched web browsing it makes sense to charge more money. Even blackberrys that use the slow edge network, u need to pay 30 dollars a month for the internet.
so hope this cleared some air with the bad information some people have given in here.
HAPPY WAITING
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