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Good news for iPhone owners who love information but hate wasting paper. AT&T is texting iPhone accounts with messages saying: "We are simplifying your paper bill, removing itemized detail. To view all detail go to att.com/mywireless. Still need full paper bill? Call 611". Check your iPhone for the message.
After all the 500-page iPhone bill hilarity, sanity begins to return to the iPhone world.
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Alex said 5:35PM on 8-22-2007
Thank goodness! Though, AT&T is doing this as much for their own sake as for ours... it must have cost them a fortune to print so long of bills. My father got a ~42 page bill, my mother hasn't gotten hers yet. I'm waiting to buy an iPhone until either a second generation one, or Christmas (when I may get one bought for me.)
Alex
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macboyinsf said 6:23PM on 8-22-2007
Finally!!! It took them long enough. Verizon has doing this for quite a while now. My company pays my wireless bill so turning off "paper statements" for my new AT&T account was not an option for me because they like to have paper in hand.
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spyker said 7:13PM on 8-22-2007
It's not just iPhones, I got a message on my phones minutes after reading this. That moose looks happy.
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Michael Hodges said 8:05PM on 8-22-2007
i paid full price ($665 w/ taxes & activation) for a phone, yet still locked into a two year contract and no optional insurance coverage... screw them, they can keep mailing me statements.
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Matthew Sandoval said 10:25PM on 8-22-2007
To Michael Hodges: Yeah, screw the environment and all the trees that are cut down to make that 40-page paper statement. It's much more important that you make the fat cats at AT&T feel the pain of having to pay each month to mail you your bill. Sheesh. What a schmuck.
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Eric said 8:23AM on 8-23-2007
Hodges is obviously upset he got suckered into buying an iPhone. Apparently he lives in the part of the world were people have respect for AT&T. In other words.. he lives in the state of FantasyLand, USA.
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GW said 8:45AM on 8-23-2007
This wasn't a ploy to get a gold star from Greenpeace....they just plain ran out of trees to turn into bills
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dlmtechnology said 9:41AM on 8-23-2007
I appreciate the fact that AT&T is trying to save trees, and when I got the text message, I thought great, they won't be sending me a detail bill of all of my data usage, but I thought I'd call in and ask just to make sure I'd still get a bill with all of the CALLS I made. The lady on the phone said, NO I would no longer be getting detailed billing which includes a list of my calls. Unfortunately I need detail billing, I have family members on my plan that keep track of who they called, when they called, what not, and they are not computer literate enough to look online.
So detailed billing got turned back on. Why can't AT&T Print off of RECYCLED Paper, I can certainly recycle my bill. Why not just have the ability to turn off DATA Details. (I'm sure it will be coming eventually)
Fortunately I don't get a lot of EDGE Usage, its mostly WiFi so my bill never really increased much length.
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Michael Hodges said 5:57PM on 8-23-2007
to Mathew "tree hugger" Sandoval and Eric - you know some people actually need paper statements either way, for reimbursement or for tax purposes. Even switching to electronic statements, a paper copy would still have to be printed out. silly hippies...
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JeffDM said 11:20PM on 8-23-2007
Michael; What I've done is "print" my statement to PDF. If a paper copy is needed later, then I print the PDF.
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