AT&T: No iPhone in NYC... By Mail

It seems AT&T has made a New Year's resolution: Do whatever they can to make Apple less happy to be stuck with them. The Consumerist has broken a bizarre story: Essentially, inputting NYC-area zipcodes into the AT&T website returns with a message that the iPhone isn't available.

Some have received explanations from sales reps that the outage is due to NYC not being "ready" for the iPhone, while others are getting an explanation that massive fraud is to blame.

Considering the phones have to be activated to be purchased, and it should be fairly easy to choose a zipcode where the iPhone is available, the fraud explanation doesn't make much sense.

Anyone inside AT&T care to offer some details? And to think this is all happening exactly one month before the predicted dates of an Apple event.