Earlier, I wrote about the amazing position that Apple's iPhone has found itself in. It is the number two smartphone and is rapidly closing in on RIM's Blackberry. Now it appears that none other than AT&T itself has decided to dethrone the iPhone in the metropolitan New York area.
As reported by the Consumerist "AT&T has apparently found a workable solution to the reported data congestion in New York City. They've quietly stopped selling the iPhone from their web site to customers in the New York metropolitan area."
The Consumerist reports that an AT&T on-line representative told one of their readers that, "the phone is not offered to you because New York is not ready for the iPhone."
New York not ready for the iPhone? Whoever heard of such a thing!
While the AT&T PR machine spins in total panic over this news, Apple steams about potential lost sales, and Verizon enjoys a big chuckle, we wonder what AT&T is doing to themselves and the "king" of the smartphones.
It seems that AT&T Mobility has made one misstep after another in their attempts to deal with the iPhone's success. From threatening to penalize iPhone users with a data charge, to attempting to defend their network by comparing their entire cellular network coverage to Verizon's 3G only coverage, to now cutting off iPhone sales in New York City, they appear to be posturing rather than fixing.
The iPhone's removal from AT&T's on-line ordering system in New York City has left users wondering if San Francisco, AT&T's other 3G trouble spot, will be next on the chopping block.
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