Responding to the settlement, Apple has issued a statement to The Loop…
“This settlement relates to a small number of customers who indicated that they experienced antenna or reception issues with their iPhone 4 and didn’t want to take advantage of a free case from Apple while it was being offered in 2010.”
The statement reveals the settlement only relates to a “small number” of iPhone 4 customers. These are the customers who didn’t take advantage of the free bumper case program Apple offered in 2010.
During the free bumper case program in 2010, they offered a free $30 bumper case to iPhone 4 customers or allowed customers to return their iPhone 4 no questions asked.
While early iPhone 4s suffered from “antennagate”, the iPhone 4S was shown to be free of the issue according to a study done by Consumer Reports.