Free The iPhone Petition

Dear Mr. Steve Jobs:

Since you released the iPhone on June 29, 2007, millions of consumers have been forced to use AT&T for their phone service. It doesn’t matter that the iPhone can work on other networks; you struck a devil’s deal with just AT&T and their monopoly has allowed them to deliver substandard service without fear of an iPhone user defecting to another carrier.

AT&T’s poor service has especially affected the hundreds of thousands of us who are on the GoPhone pre-paid plan on our iPhones.

At least twice in the past three months, AT&T allowed outages of their EDGE service, preventing us from accessing the Web and any iPhone application dependent on Web data. That means no email, no web browsing, no map searches, among other things.

In both situations. the EDGE outage apparently only affected users on the GoPhone pre-paid plan. And we suspect there may be similar incidents in the future.

Most times in America, when a company performs so poorly, the average consumer punishes such behavior by going to a competitor. This is sadly not the case with Apple and AT&T. We are victims of your monopoly.

The iPhone uses GSM technology that should allow it to work on other wireless networks, including overseas. But Apple has configured the iPhone so you’re forced to use it on AT&T. An iPhone purchased in the U.S. will only work on the AT&T network, regardless of what SIM card is placed in it — it cannot be taken to another GSM network such as T-Mobile.

Although it is legal, according to a decision from the U.S. Register of Copyrights, for American consumers to unlock their phones for use on whatever network they would like, Apple has taken away that right by locking the iPhone to AT&T’s network and its substandard service.

And maybe more importantly, AT&T’s poor service is tarnishing Apple’s brand.

We the undersigned call on you to free us from the AT&T monopoly and unlock the iPhone so that we consumers can use it on networks other than AT&T.

FREE US!

Sign the petition:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/freetheiphone/

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PrePay Iphone 1.1.3 day 5, an AT&T customer services nightmare

I thought the incredibly abusive saga of the 1.1.3 iPhone brick saga was just about over. I didn't post any updates and really believed the line of crap that AT&T fed me. But alas, its not only still an issue, but it gets worse. AT&T does not offer customer service (customer care) on Sundays, so now with the problem of being charged per text and for every second I access the intenet or my email still not fixed, no one is available to credit back my prepaid iPhone gophone account. So at this point, if I leave a wifi network or receive (or Send) a text my iphone 1.1.3 will be turned off. They ONLY thing I can do if I want basic cell phone service is to deposit MORE money to my iPhone GoPhone account.
This is without a question the absolute worst customer service I have ever experienced. It is now 6 days and I still have no solution, other than giving AT&T more of my money. Is this part of AT&T and Apple attempting to force me in to a two year contract that I prefer not to sign. What excuse can there possibly be for not adding ample credit to my account to carry me through the weekend if they knew no one would be available to help me on Sunday.
Although the iPhone is a cool toy, this is an absolute nightmare. Apple and AT&T are going to lose my business, where is the deity, STEVE JOBS to the rescue?? Where's the "award winning" customer service of Apple and AT&T.
Yes, I am just one little guy, writing on one basically unseen blog, but this is the only recourse I have as I continue to get screwed by two corporate giants. Apple you can take your iPhone 1.1.3 and shove it straight up your deal with AT&T.

Please read the previous posts, before the bashing, This has been a truly unbelievable lack of customer service experience.

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You still holding shares of Peace Arch Entertainment...OUCH, the Chapter 27 curse in full effect

Can't say we didn't warn you....We have watched our 1 share of Peace Arch Entertainment (PAE) go from $3 a share to $1.07 today. People, INSTANT KARMAS GONNA GET YA!!!
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The curse of Chapter 27 is continuing to widen it's scope. First it affected Jared Leto when he got GOUT, then Lindsay Lohan - we know about ALL of her problems, which happened to have begun just around the time of the Chapter 27 filming 2 years ago. Then the CEO of Peace Arch, Mr. Holsom was arrested for fraud and "asked" to leave his job at Peace Arch Entertainment...Whats Next....Clearly the distruction of any value the shareholders of PAE wanted to gain by profiting from the murder of John Lennon by supporting Chapter 27.
Is it clear yet, that this movie is a plain disaster?

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Day 4 in the 1.1.3 iPhone prepaid AT&T issue

Honestly, I'm at a loss...Entering Day of being charged for SMS Text , Internet, and email service on my iPhone after the 1.1.3 update, although I have prepaid through the 29th for unlimited text and data.
Once again, AT&T have assured me that the fix is less than 24 hours away. They are quick to reimburse my account, but I'm still spending 10 minutes on hold and 10 minutes on the phone with the AT&T technical rep. 3 times a day to maintain a balance on my 1.1.3 updated iPhone.
I might be better off with a brick at this point, it would do more damage when I throw it through the window of either the Apple Store or the AT&T store (kidding Apple Secret Police).
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Everytime I leave the office or the house (a wi-fi network) the iPhone rips through $$ like nobodies business, looking for my emails or helping me find a destination with maps.
What more should I say? The iPhone is an awesome toy, but this is just silly.
Although I must say I'm surprised at how few people this is apparently effecting, based on the minimal amount of feedback I have up until this point. I'm almost sure the hardcore Apple cult members are burying these stories as they get posted to digg or stumble.
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The PrePaid iPhone in Illinois 1.1.3 saga heads to Day 3

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Let me apologize to the readers, members, and supporters of Boycott Chapter 27. I'm sorry to have stepped away from the normal topic of conversation on this blog, but it's the biggest forum I have for telling the current iPhone saga.
Unfortunately, I am anything but a professional writer, but hopefully this will clear up some of the questions people are having regarding their prepaid iPhone after the 1.1.3 update.

Headed to Day 3:

Apple Store to AT&T Customer Care to AT&T technical services to AT&T Billing to AT&T iPhone specialist to AT&T customer care.

This has now taken the majority of my 2nd day attempting to "get back to my business" in my latest iPhone saga.

This is what I have learned:
It seems, from what I've been told from AT&T, this issue has only happened to iPhone prepay customers in Illinois and possibly Wisconsin. Shame on me for not wanted to be locked in to a 2 year contract. Guess I should have been beholden to AT&T for the next 24 months.

All of the Data and Texting plans on prepaid iPhone accounts in the IL. data center have been deleted. According to my last phone call to an AT&T customer care supervisor, the software engineers are working on a fix to have the plans reinstated by tomorrow morning. They will be running a software update tonight (I HOPE).

I will say all the folks at the AT&T call center have been very nice, but at some point "nice", just doesn't help. As I have explained to the folks at Apple, iPhones are not just fancy iPods, they have become a business critical device. I have lost 2 full days of text messages and have not had the ability to access email or the internet, this directly impacts my livelyhood.

For about 46 of the last 48 hours, I have had no data or text messaging functionality, when they did come back, they wiped out my $50+ balance in a matter of minutes (which was replaced by AT&T, without much of a fight). Problem was, I was unaware that my balance had been "used" and was left unable to make or receive phone calls, on what was at that point nothing more than my very large touch screen cell phone.

Billing wanted me to prepay for a new month starting today, essentially losing the 13 days of unlimited text and data which I had already payed for. Not a good solution.
The technical folks, again nicely, have transfered me to iPhone specialists, customer care, and billing. Billing transfered me to customer care again. Anthony at customer care finally got me a supervisor who explained the issue, saying "by tomorrow morning you will be up and running".

As I type, I am continuously getting hit with $.01 charges, what am I paying a penny for??

Hope this helped answer some of your questions, I am interested to know if this is affecting people outside of Illinois. Please Post a comment of this is the case or if you have any additional info.

And please refer to my last posting, before you call me an Apple basher, as I own a few shares of both Apple and AT&T stock.
And as a side-note, I didn't just buy this iPhone, I got it as a loyal employee of Apple. (and Left on Very good terms, thank you very much)
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AT&T, iPhone 1.1.3 SMS text and Edge network accounts deleted Chicago

DAY 1...Keep Cheering for Steve

MacWorld applaudes Steve Jobs and I'm out of business.

Like most big Apple fans, I couldn't wait to update my iPhone to 1.1.3, as soon as it was announced I went to run the updates and sync with iTunes.

The new Google maps was gonna make life so much better, as the government could find me even easier if they wanted too. Unfortunately, while Steve Jobs was getting applause I was being put out of business.

I've updated hundreds of Apple products as an ex-employee of Apple (yes, I left on good terms, yes, I love the company and yes, I still own the Stock). I can live without my iPod and without mobile web, but my phone is the lifeline of my business. I suppose I need to carry a Nokia or Motorola for when I really need to make a call. iTunes seems to have been down or my iPhone is finished. I never hacked or unlocked the iPhone and I always make my donations by purchasing music from the iTunes store.

But while Steve Jobs got his applause I missed numerous important business and personal phone calls. Apple, please be sure your updates are correct before you mess with my livelyhood and increase the available bandwith on iTunes. You guys killed me today!!

Be sure to wait before you update to 1.1.3, either until an announcement is made or iTunes is brought back online

Day 2 no Texting or Internet outside of Wi-Fi

It is now Wed. Jan. 16th 2008, one full day after MacWorld, the world is still Applauding Steve Jobs and my iPhone is still not working.

It has been confirmed from AT&T technical service that due to issues with their system and the 1.1.3 iPhone update that all (At least Chicago) iPhone accounts had the Text Messageing and Edge Internet service deleted from users accounts. There is still no ETA on when our iPhones will return to full-service rather than being...Big Cell Phones.

The rep at AT&T of course blamed the 1.1.3 update and the friendly, happy Apple Store folks fall back on...it's an AT&T issue. Quite frankly, I no longer care. This is hour 28 of no Texting, email or internet for iPhone users in at the very least the ChicaoLand Area.

Steve, stop playing to the crowd and get this stuff straight. This is not the iPod busines, texting and mobile email are mission critical for business today.

Please let me know if anyone is able to nail down an ETA on the return of the services we are paying for.

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Promoting a new site has never been easy, and it's getting tougher every day. Site owners are forced to spend hours upon hours doing mundane and unproductive tasks such as exchanging links. Many give up, and splurge on advertising - which is why Google Adwords earns $1 billion per quarter.

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How will Qassia generate traffic?

At Qassia, you will get credit for adding your intel. The more credit you get, the better your sites will rank. This provides incentive for site owners to contribute to Qassia. Thus harnessing the minds of millions, Qassia will become the largest repository of intelligence on the web.

I recently joined an up and coming website called Qassia. It is a website where you add all of this “intel”, their short word for intelligence, which are more or less articles. Althought they do not have to be full blown articles, that is more or less what I consider them to be. With that being said there is a huge advantage with Qassia, and Article Marketing. You can use the Qassia Dollars, as leverage for your article marketing efforts.

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Chapter 27 unrelated, but we all need time to laugh

This has absolutely nothing to do with Chapter 27 or our boycott of Peace Arch Entertainment, but
life's to short not to laugh. If you grew up in the 80's this will be extra special!!! Remember that friend with a guitar, who's basement you used to hang out in. This is him!!! Great Work!!

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See Leto and Lohan lovers...I can't possibly be a hippy!!!! Just a man with a heart!!

As a side-note to Peace Arch Entertainments (PAE) shareholders, the clock is ticking. In 19 days when your crappy company does not file it's earning you will be delisted. Enjoy your stock-holder lawsuits. Too bad nothing will be left.


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An update from Peace Arch Entertainments biggest Fan...Karma and Chapter 27

We have spoken about the greedy individuals, willing to put their morals aside and purchase stock in Peace Arch Entertainment. Hoping like management to profit from Chapter 27, basically making money off of the murder of John Lennon. I have also stated that I believe these individual stock holders are worse in many ways than John Flock, Linsay Lohan, and Jared Leto. This is an update from the analyst from ThinkIntrinsic, one of the very few Wall Street firms that follow Peace Arch Entertainment, the company that has produced Chapter 27. This is a copy of the email I received, including the links to his latest coverage on a stock that he had built up in the last few years. Seems like the curse of Chapter 27 will now hit the individuals looking to profit, right where it hurts...in their wallets.
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Thanks for your feedback on ThinkIntrinsic. I have recently updated my position on PAE, which can be found here:

http://www.thinkintrinsic.com/companies/t/pae_update

Over the last little while we have also made some posts about PAE on the blog:

http://www.thinkintrinsic.com/intrinsicthoughts

But for the most part the future of the company is not clear so I have avoided speculation and will wait until the earnings release and more information before forming an opinion.

Since the last mention about PAE on this site (we have talked about it some more on the blog) PAE's CEO has left the company. The Chairman, Jeff Sagansky, is interim CEO and PAE is looking to acquire ContentFilm, a UK-based film company with a large library and distribution business. PAE's vision has changed and we think this acquisition is more like a merger, given that ContentFilm is larger than PAE.

We also think that Sagansky has no reason to stay on as CEO and that a CFL executive will likely take that position. I would also like to note that Sagansky has sold one of his companies to CFL in the past and has a large ownership stake. It is not clear whether PAE wanted to merge with CFL all along but Howsam (former CEO and regarded by most as the founder) did not want to.

From here, I have not written PAE off but have sold my shares pending a valuation analysis of CFL. I am also unclear on the future direction of the company because CFL is larger than PAE so I must familiarize myself with CFL and see how it may affect the combined company's strategy going forward. For instance, CFL has intentionally avoided the production business, but PAE recently expanded its production operations with an acquisition in mid-2007.

and

PAE
Since the CEO was fired/quit, I’ve unloaded all of my shares. When the integrity of a founding CEO is questioned, holding onto the stock cannot be justified unless the new management has proven that they can hold their own and that their morals have not been influenced by their former-CEO. Also, it is unclear to what extent Howsam’s presence was fundamental to the execution of deals. We also don’t know if the acting-CEO will remain or if the Board is looking for somebody else.

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Chapter 27 and Peace Arch are almost gone...What's next?

We are quickly approaching the end of our battle. Chapter 27 has bombed and quickly disappeared from theaters throughout the world. Even with Jared Leto and Lindsay Lohan, it will no doubt fail in the United States as well. Peace Arch Entertainment appears to be headed towards shareholder lawsuits, continuing to delay earnings filings. There CEO has been fired after being arrested for fraud. Chapter 27 has cursed the production company and all those involved .
So our question.... Where do we go with the site...Which has built a rather large and very loyal following. We leave the fate of Boycott Chapter 27.org to you our readers, please fill out the poll below and let us know what you think. We will continue to post, boycott, and explain why we feel Chapter 27 is so wrong for as long as necessary.



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