Has anyone on the Apple Environmental Team seen an AT&T bill?
Posted by riactant on August 21, 2007
I’ve been fretting the past month waiting for my first AT&T bill, namely because of stories I’ve read and seen about the size of the AT&T bills people have been receiving.
So I received my first AT&T bill today since having purchased my company’s two iPhones on June 26. Let’s just say that when you’re bill is a stack of paper nearly one inch thick and 127 pages long it makes one reluctant to look at the balance due line. After flipping through a few pages I noticed that AT&T printed out each and every data transaction from my phones — and I mean every little 1KB transfer of data. Fine, surely they have to track this stuff, but do they have to send me 127 pages of it? I mean, seriously, am I going to call them and dispute a 3KB data transfer that occurred on Aug 2 at 3:03 am? No, because I have the unlimited data plan (which is mandatory for all iPhone accounts) and all data transfers appear as $0.00 charges anyhow. Seems like a real waste of paper (even if it’s recyclable), gas, and labor to transport this monstrosity of a bill to my mailbox.
I’m curious if anyone at Apple is aware of the environmental habits of their new partner AT&T. Considering Apple has a long history of being “green” one would think they would have at least inquired about their new wireless partner’s environmental practices.
August 24, 2007 at 4:49 am
Read about your blog in the NYT, glad that AT&T has changed its billing policy under the circumstances, but may I point out that your assumption [and link] to Apple’s self-laudatory environmentally-benevolent claim is not shared by Greenpeace’s “Guide to Greener Electronics”, which ranks Apple last out of fourteen electronic manufacturers [http://www.newstarget.com/021867.html].