AT&T Announces Accessible Monthly Rates for the iPhone
April 30, 2008
AT&T has announced that it will provide a discounted rate of $40 per month for deaf users of the iPhone. This discount also includes unlimited text messages, unlimited data usage, “Visual Voicemail,” and a rather steep $.40 per minute pay-per-use voice plan. If you wanna get this discount, you’ll have to apply by downloading and filling out a PDF form.
This also coincides with an announcement that AT&T will be offering discounts on new models of the iPhones for the general public starting this summer. These new iPhones will run on the 3G network which is much faster than the “older” data networks — almost as fast as broadband speed, in fact. And the discounts will make these iPhones be as low as $199.
Hmmm. Tempting. I’ve already made my opinions known about the iPhone, but as the iPhone goes through these updates I can be swayed …
(Thanks to David for pointing me to Gizmodo, and to Vadim for being first to let me know about this!)
April 30, 2008 at 8:16 am
Keep in mind that $199 is NOT official.
April 30, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Question is what is visual voicemail? Does it mean that I sign in video from IPHONE then send email or something like that?
April 30, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Dennis - I think it’s just a visual way of managing your voice mail. Each time someone leaves a voice mail, some info (like the caller id, date / time) shows up, and you can flip through each one like index cards on the iPhone. But I don’t think you can see the message itself as text. Someone else, correct me if I’m wrong!