Hacking, Lawsuits - “Free the iPhone!”
08.28.07 - 01:20pm
The whole iPhone being hacked so that it can be used on services other than AT&T’s is rapidly turning into a media frenzy rivaling that of when Paris Hilton was in jail and now a lawsuit has been added to the mass hysteria.
(Free the iPhone!)(Free Paris!)(whoops - Free the iPhone!)
No one really seems to care too much about using the iPhone on another service here except of course those who want to siphen off their parents family, already paid for, T-mobile plan and all those folks on the east coast where AT&T service can be a bit spotty - okay maybe there is a few people who want to ditch AT&T, but irregardless the main reason so many want the iPhone unlocked is to that they can use it when traveling in other countries and not receive a $2000 bill such as Herbert Kliegerman did when he spent seven days in Mexico.
Kliegerman says he didn’t realize that his unlimited data and text messaging in Mexico wasn’t included in the plan even though he was in another country. He said he only used the iPhone after reading a statement on Apple’s iPhone website stating that “[y]ou can browse the Internet and send emails as often as you like without being charged extra.” Thus when he came back to America and got his bill he was, to put it mildly, ticked, so he decided to sue Apple for “a deceptive act” claiming that they did not disclose the AT&T service limit.
Kliegerman grievance states that normally when he travels abroad he is able to switch sims card to use a local carrier but AT&T would not give him the unlock code to do so. If they had he would not have had the $2000 bill. Also noted is that AT&T has always given unlocking codes in the past. (Perhaps he should have gone to George Hotz)
“As a result of [Apple’s] deceptive and misleading acts, members of the Class have been injured because they are unable to unlock their phones for use with non-AT&T SIM cards,” the suit states.
Kliegerman wants all fees for international use to be properly disclosed and he is also asking the Court to award a judgment that would bar Apple from selling unlocked iPhones and to require them to provide unlocking codes to all customers.
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