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Apple customers trying to break free of ATT
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July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Love your iPhone and hate the AT&T service it chains you to? Tired of calls dropped in mid- sentence? There is a suit for that. As the cacophony of complaints about vanishing calls from the newest iPhone was reaching a fever pitch last week, a federal judge in California quietly ruled that iPhone owners -- all of you out there -- can join a case against Apple Inc. and AT&T Mobility LLC.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs are considering asking the judge to order Apple to give its customers the code needed for them to leave AT&T for another service, according to lawyer Mark Rifkin. As it is, T-Mobile is the only one in the U.S. that would be a technological match with the iPhone, says Rifkin, a partner in Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz. The other side of the case isn’t talking. AT&T declined comment through spokesman Mark Siegel. I got no response at all to a phone message for Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris.
