Exclusive: iPhone Woes Revealed In FCC, FTC Consumer Complaints

Exclusive: iPhone Woes Revealed In FCC, FTC Consumer Complaints

May 27, 2010

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Exclusive: iPhone Woes Revealed In FCC, FTC Consumer Complaints
Freedom of Information Act documents obtained by InformationWeek show that the Federal Communications Commission has received 72 complaints about Apple's iPhone since 2009, mostly involving AT&T. There are 450 Federal Trade Commission complaints.

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