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iPhone User Completes 22-Minute Call

Coleman Engellenner — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:16:46 +0000

The Federal Communications Commission confirmed early Tuesday that Yonkers, NY resident and iPhone user Kevin Strumbacher successfully completed a 22-minute mobile phone call on his Apple iPhone 3GS. According to records released by AT&T, the 25-year-old Public Relations assistant spoke, uninterrupted, to his friend Jimmy for 22 minutes and 31 seconds about whether or not Brooklyn Decker is hotter than Marissa Miller. ”This is clearly a red-letter date,” said Brock Lichtenberg of mobile data tracking company SmartPhones, DumbUsers. ”We haven’t recorded an iPhone call longer than 7 minutes in well over 3 years. And to see a call longer than 20 minutes being ended voluntarily by the user, well, I’m just speechless. And to think that an iPhone call ended with someone saying ‘Later, man’ instead of ‘Hello? Hello!?’ makes my year, frankly.” Unfortunately the long calls did not last. Records show Strumbacher’s subsequent 256 conversations ended prematurely.

AT&T Blocks Calls From Ex-Girlfriend

Coleman Engellenner — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:45:53 +0000

Telecom giant AT&T confirmed in a press conference Monday afternoon that it temporarily blocked calls from Web designer Scott Bluthenthal’s ex-girlfriend Tracie for approximately 3 days. Fending off denial-of-service accusations from several privacy groups, officials with AT&T defended their position by claiming that they were not denying access to Scott, but rather protecting him from getting back into what would ultimately be another abusive relationship with Tracie. ”AT&T has no right to control what Web sites we visit, or what calls get through,” said Irene Pricklibottoms of the Center for Internet Rights. ”It doesn’t matter if that person is just using you to get back at the guy that stood her up on Saturday, or Rick from work, who doesn’t return her calls anymore. We have a right to unfettered access to booty calls.” AT&T did not respond, but sources reported spotting AT&T having dinner with Tracie on the patio of Lucques on Melrose Tuesday evening.