AT&T won’t sell iPhones to business accounts

by billso on Monday, 18 June 2007

Accord­ing to Apple Insider, AT&T (T) will not sell iPhones to busi­ness customers.

Repeat after me: “The iPhone is not a busi­ness phone”

To buy an iPhone, a cus­tomer must open an “account with indi­vid­ual respon­si­bil­ity”. There’s a very good rea­son for this pol­icy: Apple (APPL) wants to get the iPhone on the street, not into cor­po­rate offices. No word on how long the busi­ness ban will last, but this report does sup­port my state­ment from June 17.

UPDATE 19 JUNE 14:45 HT: Thanks to iPhone Mat­ters: the Wall Street Jour­nal ran a story in today’s edi­tion on how many com­pa­nies are han­dling their employ­ees’ requests for an iPhone. The usual answer: No iPhone for you!

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