Out of the record break 8.4 million iPhones sold by Apple last quarter, AT&T says they’ve activated 3.2 million of them. This is an unbelievable number for AT&T. 27% of those iPhones were activated to customers that were new to AT&T. This shows that a lot of people are switching to AT&T just for the iPhone, a huge marketing point for sure.
Late last week a lawsuit was filed over the Apple and AT&T carrier exclusivity agreement. Now the lawsuit has received class action status, meaning that it now automatically covers every iPhone customer in the United States, instead of just those who filed. This is one of the largest movements against the exclusivity agreement since the first iPhone was launched in 2007.
We recently reported that iPhone 4 users were experiencing slow upload speeds on AT&T 3G data in many parts of the United States. At the time it was unclear whether the issue, which limited upload speeds in many markets to 100 kbps, was an intentional cap placed by AT&T or if there was some sort of network issue or maintenance operation causing the slowdown.
iPhone 4 users from a number of locations around the United States have been reporting significant drops in data upload speeds on AT&T’s 3G network. Many of these users are seeing upload speeds maxing out at only 100 kbps, far below the 1500 kbps these same users were seeing before the weekend on their HSUPA-compatible devices.
According to a leaked internal AT&T document, there’s doubt that the white iPhone 4 my not be available on launch day and even the days to follow. This document hasn’t proved to legit, but there may be a shortage of white iPhones.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun an investigation into the AT&T security breach that resulted in the exposure of emails addresses and SIM identifiers for over 100,000 iPad users signed up for 3G access on its network.
