iPhone No Longer Available in New York?

Now, this isn’t about eBooks per se, but it’s about iPhones, which are about eBooks, and it’s unusual enough–and the transcription with AT&T customer service quoted here at The Consumerist is ridiculous enough–that it’s worth mentioning. Apparently, in order to deal with data network congestion in New York, AT&T has stopped selling iPhones from is Website to anyone with a NYC area code.

A brooklynite who was shopping for an iPhone over the weekend found it was unavailable when he punched in his Brooklyn zip code, but available when he used the zips from other major US cities.

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