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iPhone tragedies with at&t
So I was caught up into the iPhone trap on the sunny day of August 27, 2007 for the amount of $599.00 USD at the at&t store at Nassau Park Blvd in Princeton, New Jersey.
I asked what I thought was the necessary question: “Is it possible to activate an iPhone without a Social Security Number and with no credit history in the US?” The ignorant AT&T bureaucrat replied to me: “Yes, of course”. “Are you sure?”. And then he convinced me with the following argument: “In the remote case that you would fail the SSN and credit tests, then don’t worry, you could always sign-up your iPhone with a prepaid Go-phone plan which is a little bit more expensive, but it can do the trick. This option will be shown to you during the iTunes activation process. And you will still have international roaming and blah-blah-blah”
