Breaking: AT&T website stops selling iPhones in New York City?

What category of Christmas inform is this? The Consumerist is news that AT&T has stopped selling the iPhone in the New royalty metropolitan area, at least via the company's website, cod to high accumulation congestion (or mayhap cod to online fraud). Update: While Consumerist's place ease cites 'network congestion' as the reason for the NYC income hold, we've been told by another customer service reps that the actual reason is a spike in fraudulent purchases; another sites hit gotten the same story.

Stephen in borough says he made the brainstorm patch shopping on AT&T's website for an iPhone today:

I was on the AT&T Wireless website disagreeable to intend an iPhone. However, when I place in my fix cipher 11231, the site says the iPhone is unavailable. This seemed a little mismatched so I started punching in another famous fix codes: 90210, 60609 (spiegel catalog), 02134 (zoom, an older children's show).
For theses cities, LA, Chicago, Boston, iPhone is available. Then I looked up whatever another fix codes: Dallas, Miami, St. Louis, Philadelphia, San Francisco. All those cities are ok. Then I started putting in more NYC fix codes: midtown, Staten Island, the Bronx...no iPhone available.

This is weird...AT&T has cut soured New royalty City.

Laura Northrup at the Consumerist contacted AT&T Customer Service to analyse if the demand of iPhone availability in New royalty City was a website glitch or a designed disruption. The online rep she chatted with addicted that the sound was indeed not being oversubscribed to New Yorkers via the website, although it relic acquirable via the Apple store website and via both Apple and AT&T fleshly stores. Mashable, BoyGeniusReport, and Gizmodo hit also verified with AT&T Customer Support that the iPhone is indeed not acquirable through website visit in New royalty City.

This is sure to piss soured thousands of possibleness customers in NYC. Let's meet hope AT&T Media Relations releases a evidence informative when the forbiddance module be lifted and if it module happen in some another cities. In the meantime, meet conceive of this as more render for the blast as to why Verizon should hit the iPhone; and of course, NYC iPhone shoppers crapper continue to garner up iPhones at the Apple Stores or at the AT&T outlets in the city.