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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Two separate lawsuits were filed in the city of San Jose on October 5th alleging both Apple and AT&T, the maker of the iPhone and the official of the iPhone, to conspire and engage in creating a blatantly illegal monopoly and disallowing users from freedom of choice as far as telecom service provider goes. The complaints erupted after Apple recently launched a firmware update that left several thousand unlocked iPhones unusable. The complaints were filed in, first- New York federal court and the other in San Jose State Court respectively seeking class action law suit status against the two companies.

In effect, both the cases are accusing these two IT majors of unjust business practices and breach of antitrust, telecommunications and warranty laws as well.

The federal case was filed in New York by two iPhone owners, Paul Holman and Lucy Rivello who are represented by the firms of Hoffman & Lazear in Oakland and Folkenflik & McGerity respectively while the State case was instituted by California resident Timothy Smith who is represented by Saratoga attorney Damian Fernandez. The two cases look strong on outset and claim to have support of millions others who had unlocked their iPhone which was later left unusable by an automatic software update which required no user interference.

As of now there have been no comments from the media men of the two companies, Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgren and AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel as the two companies are apparently getting together their best team of lawyers to defend their stand or else be ready to lose all control over their latest money minting machine.

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