What is FRT on AT&T Status Shipping Page ?

Question

I recently ordered my iPhone and have been feverishly checking the status shipping page from AT&T. I'm just wondering what FRT is since I see it as listed with the phone as part of the shipment.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Freight.... having waited 10-days for my delivery (ordered July 14), one day prior to deliveries getting push-out 10-21 days from the 15th on.. unless you'll settle for a white 16G, then it may still be 72-hr delivery. Regardless, TAKE MY ADVICE, DON'T MONITOR YOUR STATUS ON A DAILY BASIS if you don't want to FRUSTRATE YOURSELF. Reason being that the status will vacillate from day to day showing no sign of BACKORDERED to being BACKORDERED so don't waste your time and energy. People have been called to the store the same day their tracking report showed it BACKORDERED. So if you are on a 21-day delivery with AT&T, don't bother checking until the day before. And if you show it being shipped with a blue carrier # hyperlink... click on it to gauge its status only then. Once it is shown as delivered to your store, it may still take the Staff 2-3 hours to inventory everything into stock which includes other brand phones, etc. My recommendation, when you see it delivered to your store, call them and schedule an appt. to have it activated. It took 10-min for my Verizon # to port over.
The rest is a tangent I got off on, but it may re-establish some confidence in your choice to by the 3G. So read if you desire. BTW, with relatively heavy usage the first 24-hours I had the phone learning how to navigate around the features, syncing, then just playing with the new toy with PUSH being on, along with 3G, blueTooth, etc. i got 19 hr's battery life. After my first FULL CHARGE, on Saturday afternoon, it easily lasted over 24-hr's into Sunday with still at least 30 battery life showing. Here we are Monday at almost 5p EDT and I still have 50% battery life remaining. The key is remembering this is a tech tool and not a toy, right. You turn the features on as you require them. If you are in your local area I seriously doubt you get lost or need to know where you are...so don't turn on Location... I leave 3G off unless I receive an email with an attachment... and then I quickly switch to 3G for the download... or turn it on if I need to forward an attachment to someone. So on and so forth. As for the phone itself, I absolutely luv it and sooo glad I did not cancel the order the 3x I considered it after reading all the negative discussions and concerns. It works as it should and I knew of its lacking features when i bought it. I tried and tried to warm up to the BlackBerry Curve and 8000 series phones and "for me" I wasn't overly impressed with its features enough to stay with Verizon. I was not an AT&T user before getting my 3G, so I did not know what to expect on signal strength and dropped calls versus that of Verizon for 5+ yr's. WIth that being said, I dropped three call's over the weekend. Two on EDGE network and a couple of times not able to access a 3G signal or a very slow download from the inside a building, which APPLE own's up to in its literature. While I was not on 3G with Verizon, I can assure you my wife has had me in this store a few times in my life and out of boredom have successfully place a call or two. In my mind that is an AT&T issue.... and you can rest assured they were not prepared for the overwhelming influx of new 3G user's and the drain it was going to put on its 3G network bandwidth, so they are in the process of bolstering their systems and adding more towers