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AT&T raises early termination fee to $350, Verizon rumors abound

AT&T appreciates your business. And just made it that much pricier to leave early to do business with anyone else. Per the Dow Jones Newswire, beginning June 1st, new AT&T iPhone customers who wish to cancel their contract with the wireless carrier will need to pay a US$325 early termination fee, up from the existing […]

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iPhone OS 4.0 beta 4 released, incorporates AT&T tethering features

On Tuesday, Apple released the fourth beta of its iPhone OS 4.0 operating system, pushing Apple towards a final release that’s expected to coincide with its WWDC event next month. Per Gizmodo, the new release appears to invoke tethering options for AT&T in the US. iPhone OS 3.0 introduced tethering support in software, but AT&T […]

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Apple awards CDMA iPhone contract to Pegatron

Apple has apparently awarded a contract for building a CDMA iPhone to Pegatron Technologies. The news arrives from Taiwanese newspaper DigiTimes, which back in February announced that the company had won the contract for building the expected next generation UMTS iPhone 4. Previous iPhones have been built by Foxconn, which also builds Apple’s Mac mini, […]

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AT&T advances upgrade dates for some iPhone customers in anticipation of fourth-gen handset

AT&T wants to sell some iPhones. And they’re taking steps to do so. Per MobileCrunch, AT&T has begun modifying some customers’ upgrade dates, shortening them in some cases by months to allow customers to buy a new, subsidized, fourth-generation handset in June. This week, a reader contacted MobileCrunch to say that his upgrade date was […]

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Court documents confirm Apple/AT&T exclusive five year deal, questions surface over contract renegotiations

With additional chatter surrounding the idea of Apple extending the iPhone to Verizon this year, the exact specifics of Apple’s five-year exclusive contract with AT&T have never really been published. Fortunately, the cool cats at Engadget managed to uncover the following: An ongoing California class-action lawsuit filed in 2007 claims that Apple and AT&T illegally […]