iPhone 3G: Open your wallet
Much hype surrounds today’s launch of the 3G iPhone by AT&T, but what does it cost? The minimum one can pay, as a new AT&T customer: $199 for the phone, plus a two-year contract for $69.99/month. Over two years, a 3G iPhone customer will pay $1878.96 rock-bottom, but once taxes, “line charges”, “universal service fees”, AT&T’s $36 “activation fee”, “municipal recovery charges”, text plans ($5/month for the privilege of putting some 28,000 bytes of data onto AT&T’s network), and other upgrades are considered, it’s going to run at least $3000 over two years. Is this phone really worth $1500/year?
Tags: business, hype, insanity, iphone, marketing, Technology
July 11th, 2008 at 6:16 am
Just wanted to say HI. I found your blog a few days ago on Technorati and have been reading it over the past few days.
July 13th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Almost any phone would costs a substantial amount over two years with service though, but I think it would be a leap to say that cell phones are hype or insanity.