Produkt & Werbung: AT&T

“But fragments are all there is in an advanced sense that delineates a postmodern, or late-capitalist, market where marketing campaigns are the ‘product’—economically more important, more intelligently designed, and more artistically accomplished than the products they supposedly promote.” —Yours Truly, on William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition

AT&T—Whole New World (BBDO, New York)

CNN Money:

AT&T dropping more calls than ever. — In a poll that asked 4,040 smartphone users in March how many dropped calls they had experienced in the past three months, AT&T—the exclusive U.S. carrier of Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone and iPad mobile devices—came in dead last among the country’s four largest carriers.

Gruber:

Another sign of how bad AT&T makes the iPhone look: the iPhone OS has fully supported tethering since 3.0 shipped 11 months ago. Most carriers around the world have supported it from day one. But, because AT&T still doesn’t support it today, it’s seen as a feature where the iPhone needs to “catch up” to Android 2.2 (which hasn’t shipped yet).

(Und wie AT&Ts “Catching-Up” aussieht, siehe hier: “There is no excuse for this $20 tethering charge other than greed.”)

WSJ:

AT&T Inc. (T) plans to raise the fee it charges customers trying to get out of their smartphone wireless contracts early […] to $325 from $175 on contracts signed for smartphones, as well as cellular-connected netbooks.

Engadget:

Sure, Steve Jobs might be a one-man email PR machine, but his pal Randall Stephenson at AT&T doesn’t appear to be quite as gregarious—as reader Giorgio Galante found out today, sending AT&T’s CEO two emails in two weeks results in a phone call from AT&T’s Executive Response Team and a warning that further emails will result in a cease and desist letter.

@gruber:

@mikeysan:

Klingt exakt wie der Provider, den ich mir schon immer gewünscht habe.