At the D9 conference, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega claimed that AT&T customers could buy an iPhone at full price and get it unlocked. He later backtracked on that statement and said he needed to verify it. Here’s a clip from Engadget’s live blog:
Ralph just said he “needed to verify” that you couldn’t buy an unlocked GSM iPhone from AT&T. He so clearly has no concept of this — the entire audience confirmed for him that even a full-price iPhone is locked to AT&T, making it useless to those who travel overseas and want to use a pre-paid SIM in whatever nation they land in. Pretty sad, actually.
Being able to unlock an iPhone without jailbreaking it would be tremendously useful to AT&T customers that frequently work and play in other countries. AT&T does not allow this and it’s completely laughable that its CEO is ignorant of this fact. Moron. It would be awesome if AT&T changed its policy so that its CEO didn’t look like a total ignoramus.
These ppl don't need to know a thing about what their company's do.
Ed Whitacre "I know don't anything about cars, but I know big business" former GM CEO
Goesto show you there is a whole culture dedicated to extorting everyone except the shareholder in business.
If you're speaking about what a company does during a major conference then you should probably know some details about the company's most successful product.
@Ray
See above comment. It really is 2 different realities. Stop making sense!
@Ray
Did you see that Apple just started selling Unlocked iPhone 4s for $650
I did see that. One of my sources sent me an email about it yesterday, but I was away from my PC.