Recently active topics in AT&T about iPhone

Since converting from my Treo (on Verizon) to my AT&T iphone, I cannot use my cellphone in my house. There is one spot in my house in which I get good reception, but it is quite inconvenient to have to take or make every call while standing in one spot. My cellphone signal is pretty good in other places, but it really sucks to have invested in an iphone and not to be actually able to use it as a phone in my house.

This actually goes beyond inconvenience at times when I'm on-call and need to be accessible in an emergency. I am hoping it can be resolved soon.

This is a scandal! As Fred Wilson describes here: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/09/att... AT&T only allows people with bad credit to buy prepaid iPhone plans, letting them out of the two year contract requirement that they foist upon the rest of us. Fred thinks this is discrimination against people with good credit, and probably illegal.

Once a monopolist, always a monopolist. I say it's time for an uprising!

I am having problems texting people on Verizon from my iPhone 3G. Several problems occur:

1. I sent a text message, and it takes anywhere from 5- 30 minutes for them to get it.
2. I press "Send", but it doesn't actually send the message.
3. My text messages are received out of order.

Anyone else having this problem.

NOTE: Resetting or restoring the phone doesn't fix the problem.

I'm posting this here because AT&T has no way to contact them by e-mail on their website. I called the AT&T store in Hoboken about purchasing an iPhone 3G as a gift for my mother who lives there. The manager said there was nothing she could do and my mother would have to get the phone herself. Some gift that would be! When I further explained that I live overseas and my mother isn't so young, etc. she became quite rude.

So I called Apple, who were very helpful and told me I could purchase a gift card online for the price of the iPhone which my mother could bring to the Apple Store and walk out with a plan. They'd even arrange to have the phone activated with AT&T which is good - as I certainly don't want to subject my mother to AT&T as part of her "gift"!

AT&T almost lost a customer, they are just lucky that they partnered with Apple on this one.

When I signed up to get an iPhone AT&T put me through a ringer to keep my current phone number. I was first given a temporary number a (415 area code). Then I was given a number in my chosen area code (617) and then finally I got to switch the phone to my number (617...).

Somewhere in there I was charged, but I don't know for what and I never saw the bill because they don't transfer bills between numbers. Next thing I know a collection agency is calling and mailing. I paid the bill through them, which was thankfully easy and they were friendly. I'm pissed at AT&T, I'd like to see what I was charged for, and I'd like for them to help their customers out when bills get tangled up instead of sending them straight to a collections agency!