May
26
We have received a lot of feedback on our initial survey about waiting lists for the iPhone at AT&T Wireless stores. We are re-running the survey now and asking a new question that some of our readers believed was important - “Is the retail outlet corporate owned or a franchise (agent owned) AT&T Wireless store. We did a little research to verify that AT&T (formerly Cingular) had agent owned or frachise retail outlets and it appears they do judging by this article on the transition to AT&T marketing.
We are about half way done with our 100 store sample survey. We understand that official policy says no waiting lists. We believe the waiting lists are in existence and happening because of the large number of eager buyers wanting to get a hold of the iPhone when it launches. We will also state that we do not know when the phone will launch but most AT&T Wireless store reps and most of the writing in the news suggests the phone will ship some time in June 2007.
We will post the survey when we complete it. We can tell you the early results show a significant number of stores still telling us that they do have waiting lists for the phones. Not all, but many. We will post on the full suvey when it is completed.
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