May 6, 2008 3:52 PM PDT

AT&T: No vacation around the iPhone anniversary

It would be helpful if from now on, AT&T's HR department would just send their vacation policy e-mails directly to tech writers, since they're going to get out anyway and they pretty much apply to us as well.

The Boy Genius Report snagged an internal e-mail that made its way around AT&T earlier today instituting a vacation freeze for all sales employees between June 15 and July 15, in order to support "an exciting new promotion/product launch." Hmm, whatever could that be?

A similar e-mail was sent to AT&T reps last year, blacking out vacation during the period around the launch of the first iPhone. The 3G version of the iPhone is widely expected to make its debut in mid-to-late-June, on or around the same time the iPhone 2.0 software is released.

It's not clear what Apple and AT&T have in mind for the one-year anniversary, but AT&T expects "heavier than normal customer traffic in our stores," according to the memo.

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by chevyracing1080 May 8, 2008 10:07 AM PDT
The reason why there is going to be, "heavier than normal customer traffic" is because there will be a price drop on the new 3G iphone to 199 dollars.
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by chevyracing1080 May 8, 2008 10:08 AM PDT
The reason why there is going to be, "heavier than normal customer traffic" is because there is going to be a price drop on the iphone to 199 dollars.
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by eng.dan May 8, 2008 4:50 PM PDT
that's not a bad price
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